(November 1, 2016 at 2:52 pm)amygdala Wrote: Hey all and welcome,
I ran into a presuppositionilist this week.
After a bit of back and forth with him going on about how I have to use reason to justify my beliefs I got hit with this question "How do you know that you are not a brain in a vat?"
This stumped me for a few moments, then I said to him "If I am a brain in a vat then why should I believe anything you say?, why should I believe you when you tell me that some book called the bible actually exists?".
I just went on asking him for proof that he was real, God was real and the bible was real and all not just a figment of my imagination.
He started to appeal to my reason that he and the God of the bible did exist which I thought it was quite funny.
I'm sure he could have countered my clumsy response in some way but it did feel good.
Brain in jars always makes me think of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC3MGqY2J7g
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
