RE: Agnostics
August 4, 2016 at 8:02 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2016 at 8:03 pm by wiploc.)
(August 3, 2016 at 11:09 am)bennyboy Wrote:(August 3, 2016 at 10:39 am)wiploc Wrote:I'll have to go back and look at this again. I think you are wrong, but it's the second time you've mentioned it, so let me give you a promissory note for now.
So this is may be an example you like better:
In any case, your example is a conditional, but your claim is that you can simultanioiusly believe that something is both true and false. That claim, even if true, is not supported by your example.
- If you are taller than me then I believe you are heavier than me. But if you're shorter than me then not.
Cool.
Quote:Quote:"No, of course not."What if I asked you if you thought Schrodinger's cat was dead. How would you answer?
"No, of course not."*
* I'm not talking about his actual cat, which, if he had one, would be dead by now. I'm talking about the cat in the box with the vial of poison which gives the cat a one hour half life; and the cat was alive when it went in, and it has been in there for one hour.