Posted: May 06, 2012 12:48 pm
The problem for me is that people put too much stock in what philosophers say. It's a classic argumentum ad verecundiam, and teuton here is among the worst offenders. I have no idea what he thinks about anything, because all he does is copy/paste the wibblings of others, and I have no truck with that. It also constitutes, in many respects, telling you what you should think, with nil regard for what observation tells us. Observation isn't just the ultimate arbiter, it's the only arbiter.