• Protagoras
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    @Kenosha Kid
    That is not what is meant by common sense and you know it! That is the Elitist justificationism that I was talking about.
  • Kenosha Kid
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    That is not what is meant by common sense and you know it!Protagoras

    Indeed. I have a sneaking suspicion that I might have nailed your idea of common sense up front:

    Or try and pass off ideosyncratic views as common sense, which happens a lot.Kenosha Kid
  • Protagoras
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    @Kenosha Kid
    By idiosyncratic of course you mean anything not accepted by scientism... Wonderful display of circularity and authoritarian thinking.
  • Kenosha Kid
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    By idiosyncratic of course you mean anything not accepted by scientism...Protagoras

    By ideosyncratic I mean ideosyncratic. Look it up.
  • Protagoras
    331
    @Kenosha Kid
    Don't need to. I get your interpretation. Anything outside scientism is not valid. Proving my point of course,that justification is authoritarianism of a particular political ideology.
  • Cheshire
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    After all, common folks (David Hume called them "vulgar") don't feel the need to justify their beliefs, why should I?Wheatley
    In order to raise venture capital.
  • TheMadFool
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    Well, "Banno says so" is an excellent justification.Banno

    Banno says so is an excellent justification because Banno says so.

    Logic says so is an excellent justification because Logic says so.

    Circulus in probando.

    Heraclitus syndrome (misanthropy: man "hating" man): it is that which it condemns.
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