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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 27 Aug 2015

    If a question is a religious one for people on one side and an empirical one for people on the other, the latter are probably right.

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      2. Brock M Cusick, Esq.‏ @bmcusick 27 Aug 2015
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        @paulg How do you know which side is which if they both claim to have empirical evidence?

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 27 Aug 2015
        Replying to @bmcusick

        @bmcusick Ask which came first, the belief or the evidence?

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      4. Brock M Cusick, Esq.‏ @bmcusick 27 Aug 2015
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        @paulg I'd rather ask which most recently changed their view, and why.

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      1. Dane Pieri‏ @danepieri 27 Aug 2015
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        @paulg Isn't this argument based on a 'religious' belief in empiricism?

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      1. Ted Herman‏ @tedherman 27 Aug 2015
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        @paulg Injecting the qualifier "probably", itself a hallmark of empirical metrics, suggests bias in the claim (even if I tend to agree).

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      1. Michael Montaño‏ @_michaelmontano 27 Aug 2015
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        @paulg Predictive power helps clarify the distinction between belief and knowledge.

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      1. Gordon Mohr  👁 👁‏ @gojomo 27 Aug 2015
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        @paulg s/probably/empirically/ or s/latter are probably/former are doctrinally/ (Everybody's 'right' on their own terms!)

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      1. Donnie Morgan‏ @DEEelEM 3 Sep 2015
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        @paulg religion is man made. Empirical evidence has been created. The question is how.

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      1. Petteri Laakso‏ @PetteriLaakso 28 Aug 2015
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        @paulg Except in the very beginning, when the data does not yet exist or the theory explaining it is not yet commonly accepted

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      1. Ades‏ @ades 28 Aug 2015
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        @paulg believe it or not, there is a religion that is congruent with science.. so, you can't generalize it

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      1. Brannon McAllister‏ @brannonmc 27 Aug 2015
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        @paulg Empiricism can only ever be based on agreed-upon principles of "how we know what we know." Doesn't mean it is wrong but is "Step 2."

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      1. Brannon McAllister‏ @brannonmc 27 Aug 2015
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        @paulg "If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. A wholly transparent world is an invisible world." —C.S. Lewis

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      1. Martin Verdejo‏ @martinverdejo 27 Aug 2015
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        @paulg and this is what you call the religion of empiricism.

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      1. valley s‏ @thedumbvalley 27 Aug 2015
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        @paulg i believe it.

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      1. Michael Montaño‏ @_michaelmontano 27 Aug 2015
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        @paulg America's own Deweyan pragmatism, BTW, solves most of these problems for us from a philosophical/decisional perspective.

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      1. Michael Montaño‏ @_michaelmontano 27 Aug 2015
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        @paulg For collective decision making, systems of thought that rely on demonstrably shared experience rather than belief R most defensible.

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      1. Joshy Stuart‏ @joshystuart 27 Aug 2015
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        If you apply build, measure, learn to your company and not your philosophy, you're doing it wrong @paulg

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      1. Sam Leek‏ @thesamleek 27 Aug 2015
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        @paulg If a ? is a matter of religion it can only be answered correctly by chance. If u find answers in 1500yo thinking = unlikely correct.

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      1. Kc Patt‏ @kc_patt 27 Aug 2015
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        @paulg nope for the correct one would require the human side and the spiritual side look together deep as one to see the answer. Start there

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