Winning Argument: As a ‘New’ Critique of Reason, Argumentative Theory Is Trite but Useful

Now and then, scientists tout an idea so crushingly obvious that I assume I’m missing something. Case in point: the anthropic principle, which proclaims that reality has to be as we observe it to be because otherwise we wouldn’t be here to observe it. I’ve always been baffled as to why smart people, like Stephen Hawking , take this tautology seriously

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Winning Argument: As a ‘New’ Critique of Reason, Argumentative Theory Is Trite but Useful