RE: What are the Characteristics of a NT Christian?
April 20, 2017 at 10:17 am
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2017 at 10:24 am by Mister Agenda.)
Brian37 Wrote:Neo-Scholastic Wrote:A properly basic belief does not require justification. However, in order for a properly basic belief to have warrant, it must be held after weighing it against possible defeaters.
Belief does not require shit. Sell a kid Santa before they can figure out the parents are the gift givers and they swallow it.
Knowledge and facts require kicking the tires and the ability to go where the evidence leads and the ability to accept when you got it wrong. The rest is a like.
I think he means a 'properly basic belief' as an axiom, like 'A is A' or 'reality is real'. Not provable, but too useful as assumptions to discard. Of course, someone who is reasonably skeptical would want to keep those to a minimum, building your beliefs on too many assumptions is betting against the house when it comes to having rationally justified true beliefs. For most of us, there is an unspoken ground to our reasoning, an 'extra premise' that precedes the spoken one.
If A is A, and
All men are mortal, and
Socrates is a man, then
Socrates is mortal.
Neo-Scholastic Wrote:Brian37 Wrote:Belief does not require shit. Sell a kid Santa before they can figure out the parents are the gift givers and they swallow it.
Knowledge and facts require kicking the tires and the ability to go where the evidence leads and the ability to accept when you got it wrong. The rest is a like.
Most people believe that their vivid memories are generally reliable until shown otherwise. If there are no good reasons to suppose otherwise then those beliefs qualify as knowledge.
They qualify as knowledge to you. They qualify as hearsay when you repeat them to others without corroborating evidence. It may be plausible hearsay or implausible hearsay, but it's not considered 'generally reliable' because people misremember, misreport, exaggerate, minimize, and outright lie. But if you remember tying your shoelaces this morning, that qualifies as knowledge for you and if you tell me about it, it qualifies as plausible hearsay to me.
Neo-Scholastic Wrote:Unless you can demonstrate that God could create a perfect world, then the objection does not work. That is why no one takes it seriously.
So the leg you cut short on the three-legged stool of theodicy is God's supposed omnipotence. I commend you, the folks who go after God's supposed omnibenevolence worry me.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
