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Re:Foucault’s work on power by lutusp on Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:48PM (#13889514)
> Ironically, your conveyance of your opinion in this dismissive register with no substance ...

How much substance is required beyond the fact that these ideas are unfalsifiable? To a scientist like myself, saying that places the burden of evidence on the other party, who can only respond with a basis for empirical falsification. But that's not possible in philosophy, by definition.

Am I obliged to prove that Bigfoot is a myth? No, I need only say there's no evidence. And I'm not under a burden to to prove a negative in such a discussion -- impossible in any case. That makes a statement about Bigfoot comparable to statements about philosophy -- it's unfalsifiable.

> Your post is a pervasive and automatic mental pattern, common in a population that has been raised to uncritically worship abstract philosophical notions like "objective truths"

It didn't require many words for you to establish your post-modern credentials. From here, assuming I were inclined, we would have an inconclusive-by-definition debate about whether there are objective truths ... we would philosophize.

Thanks ... I'll pass.

Re:Foucault’s work on power by swift on Friday March 17, 2017 @03:37AM (#13892247)
You should read some philosophy of science. Start with Karl Popper. He's the person whose work you're referencing when you talk about falsifiability, and I think you'll relate to his writing, but he'll also challenge you to think a little more deeply about what science is - and indeed, what truth is.
Re:Foucault’s work on power by lutusp on Friday March 17, 2017 @01:36PM (#13896041)
> You should read some philosophy of science.

1. What, again?

2. You should address the topic.