[ExI] Fwd: Open Individualism

[efc at swisscows.email]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2024, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:

> Science depends not only on observation, but also logic and reasoning.    But reasoning alone can never provide proof. I don't need
> to read about your defense of your ideas, but your epistemology is wrong.   billw
>

I would say that reasoning alone is sufficient in math. However, when it
comes to questions about this world, observation, hypothesis, experiment and 
proof/disproof is necessary.

And then of course our material world is always
based on an assumption, since we collapse into solipsism if we want
strict and uncotrovertible proof of the world we are in.

But I kind of like the atheist "shift" where the one who comes up with
the non-intuitive thesis about our world has the burden of proof, and
where the material world is the default assumption.

Best regards, 
Daniel