(March 9, 2011 at 5:06 am)theVOID Wrote: Theists, Atheists and Whatever... What is your theory of Epistemic Justification? In other words: What do you think one must have in favour of their beliefs in order for them to be intellectually justified in believing that thing?
There is no way to avoid the human condition. Only humans are human. The Cosmos is NOT human. Therefore anything that makes the Cosmos, or non human things, species, etc., appear "human like" should be subject to the greatest scrutiny. Emotional bias can be apparent in many things that we consider knowledge because we are trapped, as an emotional being, within our five senses.
Because of that, I judge whatever is minimalistically materialistically mechanical to be intellectually justified, and everything else to be suspect of human bias. Even then, subjecting the minimal mechanical nature to a decent amount of skepticism is also a good quality.
