Comment by ugh
15 years ago
And why exactly are myths, religions or philosophy better at answering questions than science? What’s the justification for that claim?
15 years ago
And why exactly are myths, religions or philosophy better at answering questions than science? What’s the justification for that claim?
> And why exactly are myths, religions or philosophy better at answering questions than science? What’s the justification for that claim?
Science assumes that there is a "justification" (for language, the universe, you name it). A true philosopher always begins by asking himself if there is such a thing as "justification". Just think about it, science has helped us put a man on the Moon and create the Tsar bomb, but it isn't able to answer Epimenides's "All Cretans are liars" paradox, a 2,500 years-old problem.
What’s there to answer? It’s a paradox.
> It’s a paradox.
You take as a given that paradoxes are or at least should be "un-answerable". This Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_paradox#Possible_resolutio...) mentions a list of guys that tried to answer it, but anyway, this problem is way over my head, I should go back to writing Drupal modules before I also start rambling about Solipsism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism#Gorgias_.28of_Leontin...) :)
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