(September 20, 2015 at 3:44 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I love how epistemic possibilities are evidence...but evidence isn't evidence...similarly,I didn't say evidence isn't evidence... i'm saying the evidence from experience is not evidence for or against any theory of mind. it's about applicability... not identity... such should be apparent to you... but I guess I gave you too much credit.
Rhythm Wrote: I enjoy your comments regarding how introspection falsifies realism, determinism...and...hilariously, atheism... an ism which simply can't -be- falsified..as it's a statement regarding ones current status of belief and nothing more, lol.you do realize what a belief is... right? it's what someone considers to be true... thus if it is determined that it is not true... the belief is falsified. and since belief is being used in general terms, not in reference to a particular person, i'm of course speaking for the general claims of the belief itself... not the claim that someone believes it. why is it you deny what's painfully obvious to try and jab at straw men? do like trying to easily proclaim victory over having a reasonable discussion?
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
-Galileo
-Galileo
