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Faith and "Truth vs Utility"
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RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility"
(May 16, 2017 at 8:33 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:
(May 16, 2017 at 5:09 am)Sal Wrote: I can pretend something to be true, but in doing so, I've created a cognitive dissociation in doing so, defeating its utility. I don't see how thinking, something that's unfalsifiable, as true will make its utility desirable.

I presume you believe that other people have subjective interior mental states i.e. minds. I also imagine you tacitly accept that your senses reveal information about the a world that is objectively external to yourself. You might even believe that round objects are actually round in some meaningful sense. These beliefs are useful and unfalsifiable.

And such beliefs are certainly not science since they are beliefs about the noumenal. Science can only deal with the phenomenal. I agree with you but I wonder what your point is.
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Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Valyza1 - May 12, 2017 at 11:36 am
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Foxaèr - May 12, 2017 at 12:02 pm
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Aroura - May 12, 2017 at 12:07 pm
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Edwardo Piet - May 12, 2017 at 12:10 pm
Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Valyza1 - May 12, 2017 at 1:06 pm
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Foxaèr - May 12, 2017 at 1:13 pm
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by bennyboy - May 12, 2017 at 1:32 pm
Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Valyza1 - May 12, 2017 at 1:22 pm
Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Valyza1 - May 12, 2017 at 1:52 pm
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by brewer - May 12, 2017 at 3:55 pm
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Mister Agenda - May 12, 2017 at 5:26 pm
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Minimalist - May 12, 2017 at 5:28 pm
Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Valyza1 - May 13, 2017 at 10:29 am
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Astreja - May 15, 2017 at 1:32 pm
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Edwardo Piet - May 13, 2017 at 10:33 am
Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Valyza1 - May 13, 2017 at 10:43 am
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Mister Agenda - May 15, 2017 at 9:35 am
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Zenith - May 13, 2017 at 4:58 pm
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Edwardo Piet - May 15, 2017 at 10:54 am
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Neo-Scholastic - May 15, 2017 at 12:13 pm
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by LastPoet - May 15, 2017 at 1:57 pm
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Neo-Scholastic - May 15, 2017 at 2:47 pm
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Edwardo Piet - May 15, 2017 at 4:52 pm
Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Valyza1 - May 16, 2017 at 1:23 am
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Sal - May 16, 2017 at 5:09 am
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Neo-Scholastic - May 16, 2017 at 8:33 am
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Sal - May 16, 2017 at 8:49 am
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Edwardo Piet - May 16, 2017 at 10:35 am
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Edwardo Piet - May 16, 2017 at 6:16 am
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by chimp3 - May 16, 2017 at 6:30 am
RE: Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Neo-Scholastic - May 16, 2017 at 10:00 am
Faith and "Truth vs Utility" - by Valyza1 - May 16, 2017 at 6:11 pm

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