[lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance

Autoplectic autoplectic at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 17:06:10 PDT 2005


On 6/13/05, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> The final cause of gravity is the congealment of the
> universe into a supermassive black hole. :)
>

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:-)


> Seriously, we use final causality with respect to
> nature in our everyday speech all the time. Not in
> science though, because the methodology proscribes it.
>
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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And back in the day people used to talk about phlogiston.

I've never heard anyone use final causality talk in every day speech. Am I deaf?

-- "Life sure is weird but what else am I to know?" [Jason Pierce]



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