Errors...

[fajrdrako]

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. - David Hume, 1711 - 1776

Comments

Gratuitous Monty Python reference

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

How are you feeling today?

Did you know: David Hume could outconsume Schopenhauer and Hegel? Also, that Wittgenstein was a beery swine, who was just as sloshed as Schlegel?

Re: Gratuitous Monty Python reference

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

How are you feeling today?

Tired but well.

Re philosophers: heh. Have you seen the lolphilosophers (http://www.slowafternoon.com/archives/000553_lolphilosophers.html)?

[vands88.livejournal.com]

David Frakking Hume; the master of complaining. It seems my whole Philosophy syllabus is about that dude and how he disagrees with absolutely everything ever. *sigh*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

David Frakking Hume; the master of complaining.

Thank you for saying that: it will help me in my perennial problem of remembering who Hume actually was.

[brashley46.livejournal.com]

Wrongness again, Mr Hume; errors in philosophy can lead to a Stalin or a Hitler.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

This got me musing over wrongness in science, if such a phrase can be used.

[brashley46.livejournal.com]

Of course there is wrongness in science. The big bang is sheer creationism, and (to be less controversial) Lysenko's genetics.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Lysenko's genetics? Could you explain?

[brashley46.livejournal.com]

You don't know from Lysenko? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko , bad science done wrongly.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Interesting! No, I didn't know about that. Interesting.

What a silly world.