It may be necessary to pull down an old building before we can build a new one on the site.
I do think this is an important idea. I think that we grow up with certain beliefs and mindsets that sometimes need to be challenged and restructured.
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but not one of them even asks, much less answers, the question which is the most interesting question of all— What does our experience come to? What does it all mean? What is the good of it all? It is philosophy and philosophy alone which puts that question and attempts to answer it.
Is that the point of the sciences though? are we attempting to answer these questions, or are we trying to just answer the concepts of the world around us and make sense of why things happen the way that they do, not necessarily what do those things prove?
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But it has progressively realized that there is some kind of intelligibility in the world, that the world can, in part, be understood, and that we have experiences which, if properly interrogated, will yield answers to our questions.
I don't think this is true. I don't think that we can always have an answer to our questions. Even when we do it can change. I don't think that there can ever truly be a universal truth because as humans we are not able to truly grasp all of the ideas and concepts that go on in the world. Even when we think we find a truth, that may change for us in the future.
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Since religion is based largely on social customs and personal feeling it is not always very careful as to whether there is consistency in its beliefs or not.
I think the whole point of religion is that not all of its beliefs are always consistent, allowing for a person to form new ones.
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In reducing these data to orderly and compact bodies of conceptual description and explanation, science makes assumptions.
In what way? The whole point of science is to eliminate assumptions as much as possible
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All sciences make assumptions. Philosophy examines these assumptions.
Does all science truly make assumptions. If so what kind? I find this statement to be interesting. I don't think some things such as physical science makes assumptions. It seems pretty clear that there are somethings that happen for very specific reasons and in very specific ways and there is plenty of data and evidence to support it.
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And each myth was “touched,” so to speak, by many hands.
Much like the gospels
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Such people often seem to view the world as enchanted; it is thought that parts of the world, or some of the things in the world, are animated or imbued with powers, spirits, and perhaps even personality. Think of tree nymphs, water sprites, and so on.
Could this be the reason that we started having religion in the first place?
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Two things: first, you need to make sure they are using the term ‘magical thinking’ in the same way Tostig was. If they aren’t, there isn’t really a contradiction.
Context Matters. If we don't think about certain ideas in the same way, then trying to find the truth wouldn't really be able to happen.
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Ask lots of questions.
Philosophy may be less about answering questions but rather asking them. We learn less by answering questions that have been asked already. I think its more important to ask ourselves the questions and then try to find the answer.
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They are often intertwined.
Something Important to remember when thinking about the two concurrently
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