Show me the Sausages!

[n2doc]

philosopher designs a marvellous sausage machine. A scientist comes
to marvel at this wonderful creation, and raises an eyebrow.
The philosopher says, "Ah, behold the wonderful cogs and sprockets and
temperature-controlled mixing chambers in my wonderful machine -
surely you can see how it must produce the most fantastic sausages!"
The scientist says "Yes, that is all very interesting. Show me the sausages."
The philosopher says "How dare you, a mere scientist, question my
wonderful philosophical reasoning?"
Scientist: "I'm not questioning your reasoning - I want to know if
your machine really produces sausages."
Philosopher: "Can you point to any flaw in my argument that it
produces sausages?"
Sci: "I don't know - I just want to know if it produces sausages. Here
is some meat. Why don't you feed it through and see if you get any
sausages?"
Phil: "And sully my wonderful machine with mere offal?"
Sci: "You said it was a sausage machine. I want to see the sausages."
Phil: "Are you questioning my ingredients?"
Sci: "I'm just questioning whether it produces sausages or not. Show
me the sausages."
Phil: "Ah, so you cannot attack my premises and you cannot attack my
argument. Therefore I'm right and you lose."
Sci: "Don't be such a melodramatic prancing arse. Show me the sausages."
Phil: "The sausages inevitably flow from the argument. You see my fine
machine. You can even inspect the meat & onions. The sausages
necessarily flow."
Sci: "Show me the sausages or I'm off to Tesco."
Phil: "You are a mere scientist with no understanding of philosophical matters."
Sci: "Bye."

http://answersingenes.blogspot.com/2011/06/show-me-sausages.html

[hobbit709]

1. All philosophy is based on invisible sausages.

[roguevalley]

2. so now philosophy gets it in the ass by science. Jeez.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

3. By creating a tangible machine ...

The philosopher moved to engineering, taking philosophy out of the equation.

The rest of the argument is hubris.

Let him stand on his engineering design. He refuses, then changes the perspective of the argument.
Not only may it not produce, the cleanliness of the machine is in question, plus the recipe.


Critical thinking.

Heres the edit:

Even a bad sausage is still a sausage, and sausages are yummy! LOL

[WheelWalker]

4. Engineering = Applied Philosophy?