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Kant is pronounced like cunt

>>471734
Everyone just says "kawnt" though.

Positivism mostly fails by giving people a false sense of knowledge as something mechanical that, once you figured out the logic behind it, works like a clock and never has deviations.

It doesn't take into account that we don't know everything, we don't know how much we don't know, and that everything we do know can be instantly proven wrong without any warning whatsoever.

Ironically, most critics of positivism also seem hilariously unaware of this fact and propose 'alternatives' to it, forgetting that they will most likely suffer from the same problems

It's autism.

You can't build a philosophy on the scientific method because the scientific method itself requires a philosophical basis (rationalism). Positivism is a snake eating its own tail.

>>470649
>the scientific method itself requires a philosophical basis (rationalism

No, it really doesn't. Rationalism will tell you absolutely nothing about what you don't know. See how you're doing the very things I told you you people would do? Read this again:

>Ironically, most critics of positivism also seem hilariously unaware of this fact and propose 'alternatives' to it, forgetting that they will most likely suffer from the same problems

>>469770
>Has history vindicated him?
In what sense could Roy Cohn's drunk dog boy be "vindicated?"

He never published a list to be held accountable against. His alcoholism is neither here nor there. His media stunting was shown in his era to be limited. And of course Roy Cohn went against the pentagon.

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>>469770
Basically yes, many commies were in the USG at the time despite the protest of commies (>>469821).

http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/09/technology-communism-and-brown-scare.html

Pretty much yeah.

The Vikings were fucking stone age

It's worth noting that despite living in the iron age vikings were so shit they were below stone age.

t. Norwegian historian

>>466206
Did I miss something?
Why are there so many fucking viking threads today?

the latter

/thread

>>461420
Why does the right of the individual out weigh the greater good of society?

>>461420
/threading yourself

kill your're are self my man

Craig's formulation of that argument is really easy to pick apart. He basically doesn't offer a rationale for his first premise, and his dismissal of actual infinity isn't very well-supported.

I'm actually in the process of trying to leave atheism and find "God", although not the superstitious God of organized religions.

I believe God is an emergent property of advanced civilizations. You know how ants can build great societies even though not a single one of them has the concept of society, it's just several small parts working together to produce something greater than the whole?

That's what God is. I think every society is aware of this God though but lacked the means to express it so they created various superstitious ideas. A Muslim theologian called Avveros once said that "heaven" is just a metaphor for saying how your earthly accomplishments live on after death. Hell is a metaphor for how your bad deeds live off on after death too. I believe it's something like that.

>>444891
Eventually you'll realize why organized religion is an integral part of your theory and convert to Catholicism or Orthodoxy.

Yes, the territory was itself much more larger, which required a bureauctric class of citizens. Mandarins, master of laws and others, dedicated to the shaping of their society. on the other hand the roman bureaucraty was ''fill your pocket and run'' still. from all i've red and learned, it's the main flaw in my eyes.

Yes and yes.

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Not even close, desu

Decentralized government, wealth, and FREEEEEEDUMMMBB sure help. Can't revolt against what you can't see, don't need to revolt when you have food on the table, and revolting sounds like a shit idea when you realize despotism is the inevitable product of revolt in a republic.

>>451309
>Why was the American Revolution so successful?
Whiskey Rebellion
John Brown
Bloody Kansas
Machine Politics
Civil War
Radical Reconstruction
KKK
Pinkertons

Sounds like infighting, corruption and tyranny to me.

Learn your fucking history. Given how fucking dumb you are, start with Zinn, because recommending Dubofsky is a bridge too far for your ignorance.

>>451330
>Says American Revolution wasn't successful
>Lists events which happened years AFTER the revolution was successfully completed

>>469716
You must be very new :^)

>>469664
I don't even know why they would be expecting to deny it. Pike-and-shot formations were developed concurrently and largely-independently in Japan, Europe and China. And nobody is about to deny that the Qing military was criminally outdated by the nineteenth century.

>>469790
The Chinese never used pikes. To date, /his/ has not been able to produce good and reliable pictures of pike use in ancient China that is not a badly scanned painting or woodblock print.

>>461213
I remember a documentary about someplace in Africa where young women were put on hypercaloric diets to become more desirable brides. I guess when a fetish becomes widespread enough it stops being a fetish for those people.

>>461225

in cultures where there's not as much food, fatness became desirable as it signalled wealth or that the wife was well looked after

>Is it true that fat women used to be more desirable
No, all those claims are based on Rubens who was a fat fetishist, and prehistoric fertility goddesses.

The medieval female ideal was thin and graceful. Since the Renaissance it became a bit thicker, with bigger ass but small breasts. In the early 20th century it became skinny, then it changed a lot during the century.

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>>473872
>I
What did he mean by this?

based hume

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>>473872
>The Negroes of Africa have not received any intelligence from Nature that rises above foolishness. Mr. Hume challenges anyone to suggest even one example of a negro who has displayed any talent. As he himself verifies, among the hundreds of thousands of blacks who have wandered far away from their homelands, even though many of them have been liberated, not one exists who has succeeded in anything great, either in the arts or the sciences or in any other noteworthy thing. On the contrary, among the whites, people continuously rise above the low point that they were and they evolve through their superior qualifications, attaining worldly fame. The difference therefore between the two races is an essential one: It appears to be equally big, both with regard to the capabilities of the mind, as well as to the color.

Whatever is keeping you alive

>>468438
its subjective
therefore it cant be answered

>>468498
That sounds like an answer Dingus.

because U.N.

and because you dont need to take land to dominate countries anymore

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>When did war for territory stop and why?
I didn't.

It stopped when nato said it would provide military support to nations and their clay if they denounced communism.

It assfucked the middle east, which ended up with yugoslavia tier borders.

This doesn't belong here

>>>/int/

>>459173
If anything they should adopt latin like Vietnamese or some form of very simplified local alphabet like the Koreans

>>459173
>Should Korea and Vietnam revive Chinese characters?
Depends, what will they be losing?
Will their sense of identity be lost and a large part of their history be forgotten? If so, maybe, if not, it probably wasn't worth keeping in the first place.
Should East Asia adopt simplified Chinese as the standard?
Hell no
Keep with traditional, Especially if they have different grammar rules.
I don't know why they made simplified in the first place, and changing it would only be a sign of Chinese propaganda working.

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now piss off ya kunt

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>>467507
but their biggest weakness was an armed nun