Comments by "gwho" (@gwho) on "Crazy Wisdom: Daniel Dennett on Reductio ad Absurdum | Big Think" video.

  1. arch22, your point about parachutes misses a big point. parachutes, under the same conditions would fall at the same speed, and the principle indeed does apply to any and all objects. The conditions for that scenario was this: in absence of air resistance. But you were talking about air resistance. The equations and physics of air resistance is completely different from the equations governing acceleration of a body under the influence of gravity. So your statement that the line of reasoning applies to parachutes is true, as it would be with any object, so long as we're talking about under air-resistance-free conditions. It does apply to any object, and it is all consistent. What you did was validly switch the object, but picked one that would lead the reader to infer that the scenario now applies to air-resistance, when the original stipulation limited the uniform acceleration of falling objects to air-resistance-free conditions.
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  2. Stefan Molyneux. One philosopher who is so extremely in tune with his emotions and introspection.
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