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[quote user="Josh"]I think it is obviously wrong that government spending cannot ever result in a net benefit to society.[/quote] A few criticisms: 1) 'Society' is only an abstraction which can only be conceived of as resolving into the individuals which make it up. 2) All 'costs' and 'benefits' are subjective and only
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[quote user="Caley McKibbin"] This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. I expect that few people have/will read the "study", including me. I did a study that found that gravity in Orlando makes things fly straight up. Anyone care for a poke? [/quote] i think it's even worse than arguing with physics, this guy is
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[quote user="Laughing Man"]If we are faced with knowledge we already know then we are more likely to know the outcome and therefore if we continue to act we greatly expect a purposeful outcome. To know what we already know from an action we previously committed and expect a different outcome every single time [derived from the same action
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[quote user="nirgrahamUK"] in government , authority is often used interchangeably with the term " power ". However, their meanings differ: while "power" is defined as 'the ability to influence somebody to do something that (s)he could not have done' , "authority" refers to a claim of legitimacy , the
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[quote user="nirgrahamUK"] thankfully emergentism is not vitalism. [/quote] unfortunately emergentism is just as unworkable. there is no logical coherence to the higher 'levels' of processes or objects, these themselves can only have influence and exist as the actual constituents, therefor their entire action and reaction is (in principle
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[quote user="wilderness"] [quote user="Alice"] And your head makes an unsuitable foundation for a house. Rocks aren't constructed properly for certain technical processes, it doesn't mean they operate by different fundamental principles.[/quote] sure they both are being - yet life is fundamentally different than a rock. You
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[quote user="wilderness"] [quote user="Alice"] [quote user="laminustacitus"]Someone's scientific paradigm has yet to pass through the scientific revolution.[/quote] metaphysics, not physics.[/quote] and yet that rock isn't a tree if your knowledge doesn't intellectually apprehend their metaphysical nature. There
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[quote user="laminustacitus"]Someone's scientific paradigm has yet to pass through the scientific revolution.[/quote] metaphysics, not physics.
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[quote user="twistedbydsign99"] [quote user="Alice"]no, because what is a cost and what is a benefit is entirely subjective.[/quote] No, given a man's goal, what is a cost and what is a benefit is entirely objective. I wasn't denying that people can vary in values, I was saying compatible plans require similar value structure
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[quote user="wilderness"] [quote user="laminustacitus"] Man is denied knowledge of what others strive for; ergo, there is no method by which we can discover the highest end that every individual strives for.[/quote] And yesterday you denied man can know anything... so you don't even know what you wrote is correct or not. [/quote