Is it possible to think without prejudice?

Very good, Calrid =D> - You’ve touched on a couple areas of mathematics that could be subject to prejudism: axoims and methods. Of course, there are plenty of arguments put forwards by mathematicians why one method is better than another (say because it takes fewer steps), and their reasons seem pretty objective. But there I would be cautious. There’s a difference between an objective fact (ex. one method takes fewer steps than another) and being ‘better’ (ex. one method is better because it takes fewer steps) - and therein lies the prejudice. On the side of axioms, one could argue that the prejudice is in favor of our intuition (i.e. that we accept these axioms because they seem intuitively to be right), but then again, Einstein showed us, and over two thousand years worth of scholarship, that two parallel lines may in fact meet somewhere.

Still, if you grant the axioms - and don’t worry too much about the best method - I can’t see how one could be so prejudiced as to insist that 2 + 2 = 5. I mean, he would really have to hate the number 4, wouldn’t he? :laughing:

It’s your theory you prove it then we will have a foundation to base our disputes on.

Just saying love is x means exactly shit to anyone.

All theists could put their heads together and it would mean nothing unless they didn’t believe in God.

FSM Bless.

C

This is not disproof.

disproof for what dude? lol -this is referring to my original statement- why would i disprove my own statement- furthermore my statement can not be disproven- if you would like to disprove it then very well, but i do not have time for more of your trivial games only-humean…you should sign up as a worker at the olympics or something- or go listen to An Ending (Ascent) while you stare at your glasses. :astonished: :smiley: your out of your league here little eno fan :sunglasses:

No it’s not. Fairly basic reading comprehension, look: you were replying to cheegster’s

which was a reply to your original statement. Your reply was not a disproof of cheegster’s statement.

ummmm :laughing: …yea it was dude- you’re now telling me how i think?- you think you’re capable of handling my thoughts bro?

wanna see my original statement bro- scroll up- can you see it? dont squint, here let me help you out…

can you see this quote above? -this is my quote- it is also my original statement- can you see it? do you see the bolded portion- do you see what it says? what does it say only humean? does it not say something i later simply repeated- REFERRING BACK TO MY ORIGINAL STATEMENT?

the evidence is right in front of you now- argue with yourself bro lol…your attempts to disprove anything i say have failed miserably once again

God bless
-hth

More obfuscation?

I’m clearly saying that you haven’t disproved cheegster’s statement. Repeating your original statement is not a disproof. Watch:
“It’s raining”
“No, it’s sunny, look out of the window, it’s dry”
“It’s raining”.
Nothing is proved or disproved by repeating initial premises. This is a discussion forum, and you’re not discussing. Seems a waste of everybody’s time.

You are an angry little bunny, aren’t you, dude? I took your ‘original’ to mean the original statement in the discussion with cheegster (as is quite clear in my reply), rather than the original statement in the thread. A misunderstanding. Nothing worth losing one’s temper about, really - it means you miss out on the details of what people are saying to you.

(Edited only for quote formatting, sorry)

oh ok bro :-"

I’m not even sure I understand what you are saying here. You need to elaborate - no room for anything at the point of love/understanding? What do you have to say about my previous following two statements?

So the first statement - from the very first moment we are born we are engineered to attach ideas to things, we do it mostly subconsciously.

And the second statement; love is not the core of all existence as it is reducible to only some life forms.

oh yea? says who? :slight_smile:

God bless
-hth

If you seriously want to debate this I’m game, if not don’t waste my time in posting you a proposition.

its up to you bro- i’ve given countless posts (most imprortantly- existential fundamental truths- can be seen in my signature) to ilp…shoot

God bless
-hth

Well respond directly to my propositions then.

You seem to never do so but only reply with your own abstract appropritions with words like ‘love’ and ‘truth’.

Yeah, that’s a nice statement.

Poetic, I like it.

Don’t know what that means.

Not true, as people exist whom don’t have belief in higher power.

Love for a higher power? Yeah I guess so.

Gobbledigook.

is that what you call disproof? lol :smiley:

Well fuck it then.

k :smiley:

God bless
-hth

People like you do not belong on a philosophy forum. Not only do you rarely have any input to a debate, any input you do have is incredibly, incredibly bad philosophy.

ad hom