(August 2, 2017 at 7:23 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: The second attack is to confuse and obfuscate the natural intuition that miracles are improbable events. This includes a couple of jabs at the Bayesian reasoning, which I'm not going to go into. And of course, accompanied by more semantic arguments about miracles, including the last resort of referring to reformed epistemology by declaring belief in the supernatural to be a "properly basic belief." This is, like the attack on Bayesian inference, made plausible only by the fact that most people are unfamiliar with it and thus don't understand what is being claimed. Reformed epistemology is nothing but a fringe epistemological theory, advocated by Christian philosophers primarily because it is more 'friendly' to the Christian's pet beliefs.
No one tells it like Jormy.
I wonder if I respond to my bolded by expressing that I have a properly basic contempt for anything (allegedly) 'supernatural', if they would withdraw this bit of bull?
