The one who may not have gotten his seat at all if it wasn’t for progress, blasts progress.

Clarence “Steven Candie” Thomas, raper of Anita Hill…

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    18 days ago

    Philosophy can be tested, it is an evolving system of methods used to think.

    The supernatural is a set of (false) claims about reality. Bigfoot exists and magic god says we should do stuff.

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      18 days ago

      Philosophy can be tested

      Like, through repeatable experimentation and observation and study of natural phenomena?

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        18 days ago

        Some branches of philosophy, yes. I think that your best defense would be to claim that there are metaphysical aspects of philosophy. We use metaphysics as a shortcut, even in pholosophy. I am a materialist, so I dont really think that anything can be “immaterial” or “metaphysical”. Anything we have identified as immaterial has just not been adequately defined.

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          18 days ago

          Ok, look, I’m really not interested in getting into these weeds. My point was just that human rights, whether one believes they are divinely given or inherent to some part of our being, are, for all practical purposes, useless without some means of enforcement. Do you dispute that?