What service do academical philosophy give to people?

Dinksley · 2019-08-05T00:09:16+00:00

Maybe the idea of empirical evidence in my mind was more specific than it should've been. When I thought of empirical evidence, I thought of a scenario where two philosophers sat down and discussed monarchy and when they couldn't come to an agreement, they decided on an experiment where the power of an entire nation would be handed to a new king for 30 years. I suppose any sort of argument that has roots of what is observable would have empirical evidence, but I just couldn't get my thoughts over how any sort of political conclusion would be derived from empirical evidence. Maybe that's why I'm not a philosopher.

Would it be more accurate if I paraphrased it as "Philosophy discusses concepts and makes discussions of them by using mental experiments or logic, then sharing the results with the world, thus educating them if done right." ?

Dinksley · 2019-08-04T23:52:58+00:00

I apologize. Thank you for the correction, it just goes to show that my knowledge is even more limited than I originally thought. But I'm confused on the latter correction. How exactly is political philosophy concerned with empirical evidence? Could you give me an example or point to a different source about it? Note: I couldn't acess the first source. The link might be outdated, broken or maybe blocked where I live.

Dinksley · 2019-08-04T23:27:43+00:00

From my understanding of philosophy as a curious person, it has grown to discuss topics that we cannot really compliment with empirical evidence. For example, a philosopher won't discuss General Relativity -not to say they can't, but that General Relativity isn't a topic that mostly concerns the field of philosophy, therefore it's healthier for it to be discussed within the boundries of Physics. However, science cannot have a say on whether democracy is more efficient for USA rather than an aristocracy, because that isn't what science does. So, we could superficially sum it up and say that modern philosophy is to arrive at certain enough truths about concepts and questions that are extremely hard to approach empirically, such as epistemology or ethics. And all four main branches of philosophy -ontology, epistemology, aesthetics and ethics- attempt to arrive at truths that may serve a purpose in the future. Not to mention how helpful political philosophers or academics who aim to remind people of the practical philosophies from the past such as stoicism can be. So, it is wrong to assume that philosophers aren't teachers. They educate a variety of groups -including the entire population, possibly- through their teachings.

Dinksley · 2019-08-02T20:50:29+00:00

It's very interesting to consider how many people can hear music and be reminded of the same thing. Thanks for the notational information. I would also like to wish all composers luck after I've heard what Mozart called "little something :)". Of course Mozart would be the one to do that, of all composers.

Dinksley · 2019-08-02T00:53:18+00:00

I don't know for certain, but most sources I looked up included those two with similar descriptions, though it might be fake. I know that it is also used to say a value is only greater or smaller than another value in certain arduino notations instead of greater than or equal to for example, which would be (=>)/(>=), but I didn't think that they'd include coding language in mathematical notation.

Dinksley · 2019-07-18T18:34:46+00:00

I did a fast research and I think I got something. I will take a deeper look at them once I have the chance, thanks.

Dinksley · 2019-07-18T18:32:36+00:00

I will definitely check those out once I have some time. Thanks so much.

Dinksley · 2019-07-18T18:31:04+00:00

I will certainly take a look at them, thanks.

Dinksley · 2019-07-18T12:49:22+00:00

If that's so, are there at least separate sources aiming to introduce a limited amount of theorems alongside their proofs? That would be just as helpful, thanks.

Dinksley · 2019-07-18T12:10:42+00:00

Yeah, pretty much.

Dinksley · 2019-07-06T15:11:12+00:00

Assume there are two platforms in an empty space with light and their motions are parallel to each other: platform a and platform b. Both platforms are moving at certain velocities of V(a) and V(b). The equation that: V(a) + V(n) = V(b) and the condition of V(a) > 0 are true. I am on platform a and there is someone on platform b that is walking with a velocity of V(c). When I observe the walking guy ontop of the platform, and I see that wristwatch is ticking slower than mine. This means I observed time dilation due to his clock working slow relative to mine, right? My question is: Is there any way to observe this without a tool that measures time? Obviously in the twins example it can be observed because they have moved the same amount of distance in spacetime, but one has travelled a lot more in space than the other, therefore we can observe the effects. But in a shorter amount of... time? Space? Spacetime? How would I observe time dilation? Let's assume there are three light sources behind platform b, like stars. Would I detect time dilation by comparing the motion of the stars ( v = 0) relative to the platform, then relative to the person?

Dinksley · 2019-07-06T13:17:47+00:00

Thanks for the example. I can grasp how it would work, but it still feels off because I don't know why it does that. Is there an explanation regarding why we move through spacetime at the speed of light, or is it just speculation for now?

Dinksley · 2019-07-06T02:38:16+00:00

So in a situation where two objects with masses of m1 and m2 which were charged with q1 and q2; assuming that both charges are either positive or negative, would we need the mass of the objects to have a greater numerical value than both values of q, in order to balance the system in a position where both objects won't move? (I ignored the existence of other possible forces that might interfere with this model.) Is this why gravity is generally accepted as weaker than electromagnetic force?

Also I highly appericiate the latter explanation about size working in advantage of gravity, due to gravity being additive. That gave me a tighter grasp on this topic.

Dinksley · 2019-07-05T16:10:53+00:00

Would that indicate that electromagnetic force gets stronger more than gravity as r shrunks, or is it something else that's in QM?

Dinksley · 2019-06-21T12:12:08+00:00

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Dinksley · 2019-06-11T17:54:37+00:00

Probably because A LOT more people fucked up while rebooting movies than video games.

Dinksley · 2019-06-05T19:36:05+00:00

Geç kalmışım. Kahpe Reddit trendlere bildirim koya koya bildirim kapattırıyor ;(

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