The bliss of ignorance

[flamingjimmy]

If there were troll awards you would clear up Danot, your technique is very effective indeed, everyone bites! However, I don't think it's quite as funny as the conventional trolls on here, you should probably work on that.

[boyfriday]

If there were troll awards you would clear up Danot

 

..there is one other who is the undisputed King Troll

[flamingjimmy]

..there is one other who is the undisputed King Troll

 

There's plenty who are more extreme and/or funnier but Danot gets the prize for sheer success rate.

[Wildcat]

There's plenty who are more extreme and/or funnier but Danot gets the prize for sheer success rate.

 

It doesn't matter so long as people are enjoying the debate does it?

[Wildcat]

I believe it because there's an overwhelming body of evidence that the battle of hastings took place in 1066.

 

I might be wrong here, but Danot might be criticising such an appeal to truth because it essentially relies on a consensus theory.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_theory_of_truth

 

But as there is far from a consensus of acceptance of the theory it falls at the first hurdle.....

 

According to a survey of professional philosophers and others on their philosophical views which was carried out in November 2009 (taken by 3226 respondents, including 1803 philosophy faculty members and/or PhDs and 829 philosophy graduate students) 44.9% of respondents accept or lean towards correspondence theories, 20.7% accept or lean towards deflationary theories and 13.8% epistemic theories

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth#Most_believed_theories

 

Or maybe I am reading too much in to what he is saying.

[Grahame]

I might be wrong here, but Danot might be criticising such an appeal to truth because it essentially relies on a consensus theory.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_theory_of_truth

 

But as there is far from a consensus of acceptance of the theory it falls at the first hurdle.....

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth#Most_believed_theories

 

Or maybe I am reading too much in to what he is saying.

 

Historians look for contemporary evidence.

 

Consensual agreement is what we get on here and is often wrong.

 

 

[Lotusflower]

There's plenty who are more extreme and/or funnier but Danot gets the prize for sheer success rate.

 

As proven by the fact that we are all talking about him.

[Lotusflower]

Historians look for contemporary evidence.

 

Consensual agreement is what we get on here and is often wrong.

 

 

 

Do we? Is it?

[Grahame]

Do we? Is it?

 

Analyse the controversial threads on here.

 

Then look and see how the same birds of a feather all flock together.

 

Then objectively look to see if their view is the correct one or not.

[danot]

I choose to believe it on the basis of the overwhelming evidence that that's when it happened. Someone who chooses to ignore that evidence and say it happened ten years later is wrong.

Providing the historical accounts are accurate. Are they accurate?... I couldn't say with absolute certainty whether they are or they aren't.