Re: A Quick Update

This is a response to TheAmazingBeliever's video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt35nbKE8kQ

However, since I say his name (Aaron), I can see how it might be confused as a response to aaronk1994. I suppose the same could be said to him.

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[Rorty00]

Great response! But, being a phil. student, I have to be nit-picki and correct your statement about Descartes. He didn't START with the Cogito. (Or at least the Cogito is not the same 'starting point' as the extremeley skeptical starting point that you mentioned.) Descartes doubts, THEN arrives at the Cogito as a conclusion (in Med. II), which he then uses as a 'philosophical foundation.' (I know that you give it much though when making the video, and you didn't need to. We got the pt. :)

[DrixDZanth]

I thought that's what I implied. Yeah, I knew he started with doubt THEN went to the Cogito, I guess I didn't imply that correctly. I completely agree with what you're saying here.

Thanks for the correction!

[snownet]

+5 for the Socratic method

[OminousVoice]

I was planning my own response, but after this I don't think I need to.

Well said.

[MikeOfKorea]

"between you and me" is proper... just a note. Not a trolling. I'm an English teacher, so it's OK. ;)

[inersphobia]

You, sir, are a badass. Seriously.

[bdf2718]

I was drunk at the time. That is when my best puns are born.

:)

[Rorty00]

I meant to say "I know that you didn't give it much thought...."

You're absolutely right about courageous doubt.

[SpiralingOut23]

You're a very eloquent speaker Drix. Good response and very polite and honest.

[Rorty00]

Excellent!

[IvoMoelans]

That was probably the nicest and kindest response Aaron has ever got. Also the wisest. But I'm afraid it comes too early for him. I watched his video's and sometimes I wonder who he is trying to convince: us or himself. Maybe he will cling to his beliefs until the last possible moment, until they have really become untenable, even for him, and then suddenly drop them all at once.

[friendlydiplomat]

If time travel were possible, it stands to reason that we'd have people visiting us from the future all the time or even worse...a paradox of some kind that would make the whole universe cease to exist. Time travel is impossible by natural means.