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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2889 Posts |
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On Dec 26, 2015, Slim King wrote: Certainly sounds like it. It's not SCIENTISM (which according to the spell check isn't even a real word) to accept something that has been observed and documented simply because it's too complicated to recreate.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts |
Darwinism (n.) Look up Darwinism at Dictionary.com
1864, from Charles Darwin (1809-1882), whose major works were "The Origin of Species" (1859) and "The Descent of Man" (1871), + -ism. ism (n.) Look up ism at Dictionary.com 1670s, the suffix -ism used as an independent word, chiefly disparagingly. -ism Look up -ism at Dictionary.com word-forming element making nouns implying a practice, system, doctrine, etc., from French -isme or directly from Latin -isma, -ismus (source also of Italian, Spanish -ismo, Dutch, German -ismus), from Greek -ismos, noun ending signifying the practice or teaching of a thing, from the stem of verbs in -izein, a verb-forming element denoting the doing of the noun or adjective to which it is attached. For distinction of use, see -ity. The related Greek suffix -isma(t)- affects some forms.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts |
Skepticism seems to depend upon imagining incompetant demons. Sad to find that that's considered valid argument.
Is there a name for the philosophical position asking "how would someone else just noticing all this come to treat proposition X as more useful than any Y they may already have" ??
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Slim King Eternal Order Orlando 18038 Posts |
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On Dec 27, 2015, ed rhodes wrote: ROTFLMAO .... You let spell check rule you intellectual life????? That truly says a lot about your thinking process. Looks like it's been in USE for over 140 YEARS!!!!!! http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scientism Don't you feel silly being so wrong?
THE MAN THE SKEPTICS REFUSE TO TEST FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS.. The Worlds Foremost Authority on Houdini's Life after Death.....
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