How to stop people doing pointless degrees

I'm not sure what you're saying. Are you saying we shouldn't trust logic? Whether particiles are the smallest thing has NOTHING to do with logic. Plato was writing before Aristotle invented logic. We can "prove" the axioms of logic because conform to natural phenomena, that's good enough for any human knowledge. And then you can prove more and more based on that. Also not sure why you'd think logic can't be trusted but maths can.

Well we can make models that let us predict stuff to some degree of accuracy. Doesn't mean the maths logic is fundamentally correct

It IS correct, in that when you define a system that says X is Y as being true, X = Y is true in that system. If we have every reason to think that the system itself conforms to reality, then there's no reason to deny the truth of X=Y. You just can't collect every axiom and theory there is in a set and try to base its set on that becuase it won't be either complete or consistent.

But if you deny maths then that's your science gone, sicne without maths science is just looking at things and guessing.

Maths is useful. But I am skeptical of how good a grip we have on things.

Well if it was wrong then how come it's useful?

useful =/= fundamentally correct

it's like at the core philosophy of how science works.

You can never prove anything with 100% accuracy. You can however prove something is wrong with 100% accuracy. As apposed to deciding god exists and then using that as your starting point of your entirety of thinking which is held up by a dishonest platform. lol

You can prove an argument valid with 100% accuracy, it just relies on axioms.

If 1 + 3 = 8, then G is true.

1 + 3= 8

Therefore, G is true.

Can you not see how, assuming the law of non contradiction, the is 100% provable?

that little argument was made by your monkey brain and all its in built limitations.

My brain doesn't matter, what matters is that it is valid if you assume an axiom. Its validity has nothing to do with my brain.

But your brain is coming up with all this crap.

But your brain is coming up with all this crap. Your monkey brain is at the heart of it all , the same brain that has been shaped to help you eat, **** and sleep etc. Not understand quantum mechanics.

So you think you saying "god exists" as some kind of axiom ( I don't know what that means) means he exists and that is some how some kind of legit philosophical position to take that deserves respect from scientists?

And it conforms to reality.

What? No, I'm saying that if you assume an axiom is true, then deduce something from it, then that must also be true. But that makes a valid argument, not a "true" one. The philosopher's job is both to decuce conclusions from assumptions AND to figure out which facts to use as assumptions *scientists help here).

You can only say that if you can some how test it. What seems to be reality from our monkey perspective is not necessarily what reality actually is.

Even us testing it may still not be good enough. BUT, and this a big but. If we can make models that can be tested in their ability to predict stuff and get it right to a degree, then their is some truth even whilst acknowledging there is probbaly a hell of a lot wring with it.

Just stating "1+3 = 8 then G = true (god) 1+3=8 so god must exist" is such utter rubbish that whilst makes sense in the sense that out brains made it logical in our minds. It doesn't at all mean that is reality, all you have done is create your own fake reality based on what your brain is capable of, which is largely dictated by evolution. It doesn't mean god exists. You can't just arrogantly assume something is true and then use that as the bases of of your philosophical thinking, assuming that you can assume it is true unless it is proven wrong. You have to assume everything isn't true (well not fact anyway) until proven otherwise.

Not if your axiom is false or unknowable/unprovable.

Again back with the god thing. Sure you can run some kind of simulation in your monkey mind that if God did exist then the rest logically follows. But it doesn't matter how complex or logically sound the entirety of your philosophy is, if it is all based on something plucked out of thin air, like decided god exists. It's all based on a terrible axiom that has no grounding in reality.

I'm not saying that example is true. That's an example of how an argument can be formally valid, and the fact that it is formally valid is true given the assumptions used to prove it. EVEN IF those assumptions are false. EVEN IF the whole of logic is just constructed by our monkey brains, within in the system our monkey brains produced, it is true that the system is valid.

The point is is that the assumptions we do you DO conform to reality, and that is why we trust them.

Furthermore, your whole argument here relies on a fallacy. The fact that I it is possible that my critical faculties are limited by my species is not an argument to suggest that any truths coming from them are untrustworthy.

Furthermore, your whole argument here relies on a fallacy. The fact that I it is possible that my critical faculties are limited by my species is not an argument to suggest that any truths coming from them are untrustworthy.

1 + 4 = 5 then U exists

U = unicorns.

Unicorns exist.

Therefor unicorn horns exist.

Now please respect my position and let me take load so money in academia for my unicorn theology based on the logic surrounding unicorn horns philosophy research.

That';s basically what theology is. It's philosophy sure, but the base assumption of it does not in anyway have grounding in reality so it all fulls apart. It;s bad philosophy.

I'm goign to bed and will dream fo unicorns. My sensors will tell me I am seeing unicorns so they must exist.

No, but if you are going to be honest you need to accept they will be shaped by them. and you should be weary of what your sensors tell you. Your sensors tell you that table is solid. Yet we now know it is mostly empty space.