kieron115
lmfao right?
Thank you for taking the time to respond, I realized very quickly that I am FULLY out of my depth with this conversation haha. You all are very thoughtful and knowledgeable.
It's fascinating seeing the responses to this from you all who obviously know a lot about philosophy. Coming at it from a layman's perspective, and not really knowing who David Hume was, the science definitions bit was all I could really understand and I interpreted it the way that you say it could have been written. I'm now wondering if just placed my own preconceptions about the bits that I did understand onto the author without really considering the rest.
That's fair. But the idea of approaching the universe from a standpoint of not being able to truly "know" is kind of the basis of all science isn't it? We can have evidence of something, maybe even enough evidence to make reliable, repeatable predictions in the context of our infinitely short existences, but it will forever and always be transient knowledge. Nothing in the universe is static and unchanging forever.
Being that this is a Star Trek post I'll just add this.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: "Sir, our sensors are showing this to be the absence of everything. It is a void without matter or energy of any kind."
Commander Riker: "Yet this hole has a form, Data; it has height, width..."
Lt. Cmdr. Data: "Perhaps. Perhaps not, Sir."
Captain Picard: "That's hardly a scientific observation, Commander."
Lt. Cmdr. Data: "Captain, the most elementary and valuable statement in science, the beginning of wisdom, is, "I do not know". I do not know what that is, Sir."
Clearly she just hadn't had her coffee yet! On a serious note though I have to agree with @Corgana@startrek.website. The evolving definition of "medical death" as more of a logistical necessity than anything is something that I never really thought about before.
Naw it was perfectly clear. People just need to read past the first sentence.
Seriously! I know that BLUF is a thing but do that many people seriously not read past the first line before feeling the need to correct someone on the internet? @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca as a fellow member of the human race let me formally thank you for forming a question, seeking out information that either confirms or denies your question, and informing everyone else who may have had the same misconception.
Janeway apologist! (/s)
"lopsided" font plate was almost a badge of honor back in the day lol because it meant that you had a front mount intercooler that needed air (and if you did the offset plate without an FMIC you were ridiculed endlessly for being a buffoon)
lol I was gonna try and continue the joke but i went to look up the lyrics and this amused the shit out of me. It's apparently more popularly known as "that song from star trek enterprise" than as a rod stewart song!