Epistemology is the field of studying human knowledge, so epistemological relativism means that you think, like Moses, that truth and knowledge are relative. Mo gets him by applying epistemological relativism to epistemological relativism
the great postmodernist fallacy… everything can’t be relative because relativism would also be relative (unless relativism is the ultimate truth and not self-applicable, in which case relativism becomes an instrument for political apathy… and control)…
Yeah, I printed it out and put it on my wall. Religious thinking may be bad, but it’s a blessing compared to extreme Po-mo litcrit, esoteric woowoo and magical thinking in general. When I hear some of my fellow atheists wishing for religion to vanish from the face of earth, I often think “be careful what you wish for”. Organized religion at least puts the irrational tendencies intrinsic to every human being into a controlled environment.
[…] his point of view the cat would still be in superposition, which is of course ludicrous because there is such a thing as objective reality. But the even more impressive bit of nonsense in there is that it assumes that entanglement is a […]
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July 5th, 2007 at 7:22 am
brilliantly hilarious
July 5th, 2007 at 7:28 am
The vicious circle continues…
Still funny though
July 5th, 2007 at 7:58 am
LOLZ
July 5th, 2007 at 10:45 am
i like
July 5th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Mo - the man with the plan
July 5th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
great spin on the old argument.
July 6th, 2007 at 1:07 am
awesome spin
July 6th, 2007 at 1:29 am
Such a great spin, in fact, that I am now staring at the back of my monitor
July 6th, 2007 at 6:16 am
Haha fantastic
July 6th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Best ever
July 6th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Umm, I get a bit of what this means, but could a more well read member give me the skinny?
July 7th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Epistemology is the field of studying human knowledge, so epistemological relativism means that you think, like Moses, that truth and knowledge are relative. Mo gets him by applying epistemological relativism to epistemological relativism
July 8th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
the great postmodernist fallacy… everything can’t be relative because relativism would also be relative (unless relativism is the ultimate truth and not self-applicable, in which case relativism becomes an instrument for political apathy… and control)…
July 9th, 2007 at 1:05 am
Ah.. do we see that Mo is becoming “Po-Mo”?
;-P
July 12th, 2007 at 6:03 am
Very funny ;0)
July 12th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
I love it! Best in a long time :D!
July 14th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Yeah, I printed it out and put it on my wall. Religious thinking may be bad, but it’s a blessing compared to extreme Po-mo litcrit, esoteric woowoo and magical thinking in general. When I hear some of my fellow atheists wishing for religion to vanish from the face of earth, I often think “be careful what you wish for”. Organized religion at least puts the irrational tendencies intrinsic to every human being into a controlled environment.
July 16th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
“Organized religion at least puts the irrational…..”
….in other words, insane asylums are what makes insanity real?
July 20th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
uh, wow … a {play within a play} sort of ….
I need to get more sleep!
Lotsa fun!
July 21st, 2007 at 12:42 pm
@Blader:
No, insane asylums keep insanity off the streets.
August 30th, 2007 at 11:48 am
[…] his point of view the cat would still be in superposition, which is of course ludicrous because there is such a thing as objective reality. But the even more impressive bit of nonsense in there is that it assumes that entanglement is a […]