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StephenBuckley  ·  4341 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Brian Leiter, “Why Tolerate Religion?”

Feynman told you that matter can and does exist in all of its possible positions simultaneously, and you believed it.

I don't mean to offend you, but I highly doubt that you have studied physics to the point where you could prove his findings to yourself mathematically, and I also doubt that you have the equipment and wherewithal to reproduce the experiment.

So you have no evidence that Feynman is correct besides a lot of other, more knowledgeable people in the same field telling you that he's correct.

Beginning to sound less and less like reason!





briandmyers  ·  4341 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Feynman does not argue from authority. People may trust him as an authority, and I certainly do, but the point is that his peers do not.

StephenBuckley  ·  4341 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hmm. Sounds an awful lot like

    following someone else's thinking without question
to me. But, hey, if you say that it's reason then I guess you just need a new definition of religion.
briandmyers  ·  4341 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I didn't say it was reason. I said Feynman does not argue from authority.