RE: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options
October 2, 2015 at 5:12 am
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2015 at 5:16 am by Psychonaut.)
(October 2, 2015 at 4:47 am)robvalue Wrote: ... To say otherwise is to say I don't know what my own beliefs, or lack of beliefs, are.....
...But if "know" means "100% certainty" then such a thing does/should not exist....
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that is precisely what I am saying I feel, and the only knowing I have is that of direct experiential phenomena ie: sensory experience.
I only know that there is experience, everything else is uncertain. So I still feel as though you are right, and atheism may in fact be my present condition, but I am uncertain!
How on earth does one gain certainty about a belief? If one has a lower degree of certainty about belief than of other things, like direct experience.
In other words, how can I make the belief the set, when the certainty of experience is in fact the set. My belief is a subset, and secondary to my experience. I'm not even sure I'm making sense any more. Or if I've gone off track. Lol
Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture room with the words,
"Behold Plato's man!"
