RE: What philosophical evidence is there against believing in non-physical entities?
August 31, 2016 at 10:42 am
(August 31, 2016 at 8:33 am)robvalue Wrote:(August 30, 2016 at 9:10 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I would agree... contradictory claims cannot both be true!
It seems a sensible principle, yes.
This puts everyone who claims to be having any sort of communication "from God" in an extremely dubious position. They are either the only one getting it right, or they are deluded. Statistically, they are deluded, even if God is actually talking to anyone at all.
The fact so many people really believe God talks to them through leaves and such shows how the underlying truth matters so little when the belief is so strong.
Actually, what I am speaking of; pointed me to orthodoxy, and what Christians have historically believed and experienced through the centuries (as apposed to a Maverick approach). And frankly I find your approach naïve and ill-informed(statistically speaking). I think that a number of conversations here, show that underlying truth matters so little, when the belief is so strong. Hence we see begging the question in so many of these discussions.
