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| Quote (Albatrossity2 @ May 22 2008,07:17) | Kairosfocus brings the good stuff. | Quote | SC:
In re:
I ask again, how is this different than a subjective assessment? I had thought CSI was a computational system developed by Dr. Dembski. I will be a bit discouraged if it has only advanced it to the “yes”, “no”, “more”, “less” level of formalization.
ALL measurements are digitisable. So, in principle [and in praxis too . . .] ALL measurements are a chain of yes/no, more/less decisions.
Equally — and as pointed out above — ALL measurements incorporate a subjective element. Indeed, ALL knowledge inevitably incorporates a subjective element. Further to this, every quantity is also about a quality: how much of X is in the end about in part recognising the presence/absence of X. Moreover, once we address information, as opposed to mere concatenations of elements forming a contingent whole, we are dealing with issues of intent, purpose, context etc — i.e the active mind, thus again the subjective.
Objectivity is about whether there is credibly more than the merely subjective, and CSI — especially FSCI — far and away passes that test.
In short you may be falling into dismissive, selective hyperskepticism; which is inevitably incoherent. |
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I can't address your question about the emperor's lack of clothes, but if you just breathe more deeply from this pipe o'tard, you won't notice that any more. |
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2+2 might equal 4. But if I don't like the result then goddidit.
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