I hate to tell you but philosophy has its own branch of basically math (logic). You need math to prove things :(
Can't we just talk about it without the maths? Guys?
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de 11 months ago
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 11 months ago
It’s more like math uses logic as a tool to prove things.
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Is that in the form of the supporting statistical data, for the maths alone, or…? For logic I have a better understanding, but maths has been more of a struggle for me.
F04118F@feddit.nl 11 months ago
It’s nothing to do with statistics, “just” logic. But most people find that it starts to feel like maths real quick.
If you want to try it: ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-241-logic-i-fall-2009/
xkforce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
First year physics students asking the important questions for the 10th time that day
yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Having a hard time finding the average velocity of a car is definitely a sign from the universe that you should switch majors.
dope@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Via a difficult method you observe something strange.
For conversation’s sake you call what you observed, “god”.
Overhearing the conversation, people, who never practiced the method, discuss “god”.
In time the method is forgotten. But the discussion continues.
That baseless, insubstantial discussion.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If God can exist without being created by something, why can’t the universe?
m_f@midwest.social 11 months ago
The argument I’ve heard is “It must stop somewhere, and whatever it stops at, we’ll call that god”. It’s not a good argument, because it then hopes that you conflate the Judeo-Christian deity with that label and make a whole bunch of assumptions.
It’s often paired with woo that falls down to simply asking “Why?”, such as “Nothing could possibly be simpler than my deity”
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 months ago
So if it stops at the universe, the universe itself is called ‘God’?
jadero@mander.xyz 11 months ago
What is this stop business? I have it on good authority that it’s turtles all the way down.
NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Agreed, the big issue with their argument here is that “god” implies sentience, which isn’t something we have any reason to assume exists for whatever at the “stop somewhere” point. If energy was the starting point for example, I doubt these people would be down with calling heat a god
Knusper@feddit.de 11 months ago
It’s also a bad argument, because the concept of things being ‘created’ is an entirely human one. It’s us who decided that if a pile of pre-existing atoms are moved into the shape of a chair, we’ll say that chair was ‘created’.
Aside from this conceptual creation, nothing is ever created in the universe, as far as we know. Atoms don’t ever just pop into existence out of thin air.
I have heard the argument that the universe was just as well ‘created’ in the conceptual sense, so everything existed beforehand, it was just moved into a shape that we recognize as ‘universe’ today.
But that would still mean there’s no argument for a creator and of course, this is simply not what most people mean when they talk about the creation of the universe.
Kyyrypyy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If I remember correctly from my hazy years of school philosophy classes, it was Thomas Aquinas who suggested it. Who was a friar, so that’s why the assumption of the religion.
Also, I understood the core idea being that God isn’t what IS the beginning, but that the point where human mind can’t comprehend beyond is God. Which, back then, and even now, I considered to be a lazy copout for a philosopher, as the point of a philosopher is to test the limits of our understanding.
Then again, for friar to state that the end solution is not god for their thinkings, at that time and place, would’ve probably result in being positioned as a centerpiece of a bonfire.