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Gromit
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22 Jan 2019, 10:51 pm

aspiesavant wrote:
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Actually, the gap between, say, Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human.

The gap in what? That is a quantitative claim. If it reflect more than Louis Mackey's feeling about the subject, there must have been a measurement. What was measured, and how? If the claim is just based on Mackey's subjective feeling of awe, it has bugger all to do with any scientific assessment of the intellects of humans and chimps.



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22 Jan 2019, 11:01 pm

Gromit wrote:
aspiesavant wrote:
Louis Mackey wrote:
Actually, the gap between, say, Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human.

The gap in what? That is a quantitative claim. If it reflect more than Louis Mackey's feeling about the subject, there must have been a measurement. What was measured, and how? If the claim is just based on Mackey's subjective feeling of awe, it has bugger all to do with any scientific assessment of the intellects of humans and chimps.


aspiesavant has been banned dude.


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22 Jan 2019, 11:03 pm

SaveFerris wrote:
Gromit wrote:
aspiesavant wrote:
Louis Mackey wrote:
Actually, the gap between, say, Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human.

The gap in what? That is a quantitative claim. If it reflect more than Louis Mackey's feeling about the subject, there must have been a measurement. What was measured, and how? If the claim is just based on Mackey's subjective feeling of awe, it has bugger all to do with any scientific assessment of the intellects of humans and chimps.


aspiesavant has been banned dude.


Really why?



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22 Jan 2019, 11:15 pm

Daniel89 wrote:
SaveFerris wrote:
Gromit wrote:
aspiesavant wrote:
Louis Mackey wrote:
Actually, the gap between, say, Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human.

The gap in what? That is a quantitative claim. If it reflect more than Louis Mackey's feeling about the subject, there must have been a measurement. What was measured, and how? If the claim is just based on Mackey's subjective feeling of awe, it has bugger all to do with any scientific assessment of the intellects of humans and chimps.


aspiesavant has been banned dude.


Really why?


I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you :lol:

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