March 19, 2009 10:07AM
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Dave Lightbody Wrote:
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> ... our
> requirement to look impartially at the facts in a
> balanced manner, rather than starting from the
> standpoint that this find is false, and then
> individually picking apart each piece of evidence
> to prove the preconceived conclusion.
>
> No piece of evidence can stand alone with 100%
> certainty when examined in minute detail,
> therefore the preconceived skeptical approach is
> inherently flawed.
That's called "special pleading". If every piece of the evidence does fall apart on close examination, then the conclusion itself is in all likelihood entirely false as well.
Healthy skepticism is the rootsource of intellectual integrity. Often the greatest leaps in understanding come from exploring those "little errors" in assumptions or statements from by-gone scholars. Einstein tore up Newton with a simple question. After all, what serious researcher would want to be known as someone who uses defunct theories by people who can't modify their disproven assertions any more? You know, the "I Cite Dead People" syndrome that plagues pseudohistory? It's beyond me, but clearly some people engage in that regularly.
Healthy, assertive skepticism, as has been demonstrated here in this thread, is the hurdle that must be met in order for a theory to be accepted as reasonable. This theory seems to have sufficient problems that acceptance is on the very back burner. Some theories presented here at Ma'at, in fact, have been so decimated that they should never rear their ugly heads again... but they do. "I cite dead people" syndrome. One recent example is the using of an early translation of the Pyramid Texts because they fit, but ignoring Allen's because they don't. This kind of argument from authority sometimes creeps into accepted academia and really must be isolated and removed from our knowledge base. It's these picky little questions that allow us to move forward.
I'm surprised anyone would
defend the contrary.
Anthony
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.
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