Michael T. Martin

culture & the contemporary city

Squashed: On Nothing in Particular

unsolicitedanalysis writes:

You keep using “theist” and “empiricist” as if they’re some sort of contrasting and mutually exclusive world view. You’ve beaten the stuffing out of that strawman!

You know that’s a strawman, right? Why perpetuate it? Surely you actually buy into the caricature…

1 year ago

  1. michaeltmartin reblogged this from squashed
  2. yoojinl answered: Empiricism does not lead to genocide. To say so is a strawman as there is nowhere in observation that you can derive that on its own.
  3. talix18 answered: I learned in logic that there’s no way to derive an “ought” from an “is”. Has that changed?
  4. absurdreasoning answered: Empirical observation results in a Darwinian set of morality, resulting in a Nazi-like extermination of those that don’t contribute genetical
  5. squashed posted this