Very interesting. I think Collingwood was up against this type of philosophers, the analytical school which just functioned very differently. In reading his autobiography, he writes how he would even agree or admire their refutation of what he had to say, though he knew that they were wrong. They at best just belonged more to the left brain school of philosophers, unable to intuit and see the whole yet very good at analysing things to bits.
Its amazing how far a philosopher will go with a rather shaky view of left brain / right brain. Brains don't actually work that way, nor do they all work the *same* way. We know almost nothing about how brains work but we can expect philosophers to build fairy castles on the flimsiest of data.
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve realized that the problems with someone’s position or argument was rooted with an issue with their premises.
But if process is everything then gigo applies, and the computer doesn’t care.
Very interesting. I think Collingwood was up against this type of philosophers, the analytical school which just functioned very differently. In reading his autobiography, he writes how he would even agree or admire their refutation of what he had to say, though he knew that they were wrong. They at best just belonged more to the left brain school of philosophers, unable to intuit and see the whole yet very good at analysing things to bits.
Its amazing how far a philosopher will go with a rather shaky view of left brain / right brain. Brains don't actually work that way, nor do they all work the *same* way. We know almost nothing about how brains work but we can expect philosophers to build fairy castles on the flimsiest of data.
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve realized that the problems with someone’s position or argument was rooted with an issue with their premises.
But if process is everything then gigo applies, and the computer doesn’t care.
I agree we philosophize toward our conclusion. But it’s not always based on our honest intuitions, but often on what conclusions we WISH to be true.
Materialists MUST believe in materialism, because they WON’T accept God.