(September 26, 2016 at 10:36 am)_Velvet_ Wrote: Also if you are going to ad hominem me might as well not say anything.
I wasn't ad hominem'ing you. I was simply pointing out the limits of the "makes sense" sort of reasoning. I should have posted my own thoughts, but I was lazy and borrowed from somewhere else. In short, people frequently engage in a form of reasoning that stops at the question, "Does it make sense?" The problem is that most often the thinking stops there. Additionally, the amount of things that "makes sense" far outweighs the number of things that are true. "Makes sense" epistemology concentrates on confirmation, and completely ignores falsification. Thus employing it as a bar to what is true leaves you in a very vulnerable and weak position.
(September 26, 2016 at 10:36 am)_Velvet_ Wrote: If you are interested I advise you to read the last 2-3 pages and you will notice (hopefully) i'm not proposing what you think I am.
I don't think I'm under any illusions about what you are proposing. I have read the entire thread.