Problems with this section; for Frank (Agnosticism)

by Frank Paris , Monday, November 23, 2009, 01:43 (5478 days ago) @ David Turell

"If it is that complex and far out, why bother."-As a philosophy major, I find that a silly thing to say. Why bother reading Kant or Heidegger then, two of the most profound minds the world has ever known? Understanding deep insights light years from common knowledge is always going to be tough going, and most people won't bother, that's why there are so few professional philosophers. Your objection is an objection against philosophy in general, or abstract algebra for that matter, or any difficult field.-"Our favorite friend Occam (we both spell it the same way)..."-Why wouldn't we spell it the way it's listed in the dictionary?-"...demands simplicity."-That's not what Occam's razor is. If you have two different statements that are completely adequate in explaining the same thing and one statement is simpler than another, then Occam's razor prefers the simpler explanation. But that simpler explanation might still be incredibly complicated, depending on what is being explained.-But I'm tired of splitting hairs with you and need to go do my daily exercise.-"You are comfortable with 'process', I assume, because of your mystical experiences."-No. I'm comfortable with it because I recognize that that's the way the world works and science assumes it in its very foundation.