OK, so my favorite man-with-a-hammer du jour is the “everyone does everything for selfish reasons” view of the world. If you give money to charity, you do it for the fuzzy feeling, not because you are altruistic.
What would you propose as the three factual claims to test this? I’m having a hard time figuring any that would be a useful discriminant.
Thinking about this a bit, it seems most useful to assert negative factual claims, ie: “X never happens”.
OK, so my favorite man-with-a-hammer du jour is the “everyone does everything for selfish reasons” view of the world. If you give money to charity, you do it for the fuzzy feeling, not because you are altruistic.
That’s not a disagreement about the nature of the world, it’s a disagreement about the meaning of the word “altruistic”.
OK, so my favorite man-with-a-hammer du jour is the “everyone does everything for selfish reasons” view of the world. If you give money to charity, you do it for the fuzzy feeling, not because you are altruistic.
What would you propose as the three factual claims to test this? I’m having a hard time figuring any that would be a useful discriminant.
Thinking about this a bit, it seems most useful to assert negative factual claims, ie: “X never happens”.
That’s not a disagreement about the nature of the world, it’s a disagreement about the meaning of the word “altruistic”.