Originally Posted by
Rowan
You do know that the science you want people to investigate is no more than statistics?
Once you go beyond the physics and chemistry, there is no science.
I haven't seen a sentence that openly Cartesian, and by someone who wasn't kidding, in a long time.
To paraphrase Gilson, one might be excused for having been Descartes, but there is no excuse whatsoever for being a Cartesian.
If you have no idea what I just said, you shall read The Unity of Philosophical Experience and thus do penance.
Anyway, not to derail the thread, but a Descartes joke before I sign out.
Old Rene headed over to the bar to philosophize and down some cognac.
Near closing, the bartender calls out, "Closing time. Mr. Descartes, may I get you one last drink?"
Descartes replied, "I think not", and promptly vanished.
That is all.