(January 15, 2016 at 3:52 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(January 14, 2016 at 3:36 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Because your concept of reality is severely constricted if you actually think that only scientifically verifiable facts count as knowledge. I suspect that while you may profess that, you do not actually live as if that were true.
What about non-reality is knowable? And how do you know that?
I feel sorry for anyone who confuses beliefs and knowledge. That way lies illusion and self-deception.
(January 15, 2016 at 10:54 am)ChadWooters Wrote: No one is disparaging the modern scientific method or the innumerable technological advances from which we benefit. All I am saying is that life has a qualitative aspect that cannot be analyzed or appreciated on a purely materialistic level. If your only gauge of what counts as reality is your physical and material well-being, then you have summarily discarded the entire world of inner personal life that cannot be reduced to physical facts.
And that is not knowledge, it's belief and emotion.
Are you saying that psychological facts don't count? (Mary's Room, Jackson).
