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three distinct category of philosophies............. |
Dark_Crow |
03/28/06 |
It appears we have on this forum three distinct category of philosophies. Baconian, Aristotelian and Theorist.
E.A. Poe was recently mentioned in the truth, as befits A and B philosophy.
Listen to what Poe says about the Hog and the Ram Philosophy, and tell me if it be true or false according to your experience.
"No man dared utter a truth for which he felt himself indebted to his soul alone. It mattered not whether the truth was even demonstrably such; for the dogmatizing philosophers of that epoch regarded only the road by which it professed to have been attained. The end, with them, was a point of no moment whatever: — ‘the means!’ they vociferated — ‘let us look at the means!’ — and if, on scrutiny of the means, it was found to come neither under the category Hog, nor under the category Aries (which means ram), why then the savants went no farther, but, calling the thinker a fool and branding him a ‘theorist,’ would never, thenceforward, have anything to do either with him or with his truths". |
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Jim.McGinness
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03/28/06 |
Only three?!?
863 There are more things in heauen and earth Horatio 864 Then are dream't of in {your} {our} philosophie, . . . .Hamlet (found in http://www.leoyan.com/global-language.com/ENFOLDED/enfolded.intro.html) For Shakespeare, this was a rhetorical device, since the ghosts and revelations were his fictional inventions.
We know that people can be quite bull-headed about following their own vision of truth, regardless of the field. In both Kuhn and Lakatos's version of how science works, you come to expect advocates of a theory to struggle to revise and restate it when it begins to face contrary evidence. The world systems constructed from the theories are not so easily thrown down. In philosophy, a similar thing can happen, but there is less of a reality check available to help winnow out the inferior paradigms. |
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