RE: Proof that God exists
January 15, 2018 at 2:24 pm
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2018 at 2:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I can, however, give you an example of something I don;t understand, but it would be more a convo between vulcan and I than you and I. I don't understand the value of "challenging my positions" re atheism. This can only mean one thing - legitimately considering fairies.
If ever there were a proposition considered to death and DOA, it would be fairies. The fairy proposition has been explored for so long and in such depth, and been found to be so utterly and contemptuously lacking in substance or explanatory value that it defies belief to see it still attached in virtue signaling. As if there were some good to resurrecting the corpse of that failure. There are no fairies, and nothing about anything else I know is effected by the vacuous proposition that fairies may exist.
Knowledge explicitly demands objectivity. If you know it, you can show it. If you can't show it, it's not objective..and therefore is not knowledge. More properly, it is a belief.
Fun with words: The objective is to determine the existence of bigfoot. To that end we have deployed objective investigators, in order to objectively determine whether or not this creature exists. Three uses of the term, three distinct connotations in context. All well and good. If, however, we drift back and forth between these connotations in drawing inferences between them our conclusion will be fundamentally uninformative due to textbook equivocation. Or, in other words...being bad at words.
If ever there were a proposition considered to death and DOA, it would be fairies. The fairy proposition has been explored for so long and in such depth, and been found to be so utterly and contemptuously lacking in substance or explanatory value that it defies belief to see it still attached in virtue signaling. As if there were some good to resurrecting the corpse of that failure. There are no fairies, and nothing about anything else I know is effected by the vacuous proposition that fairies may exist.
(January 15, 2018 at 2:23 pm)Agnosty Wrote: How can you know something to be true and be objective at the same time?
Knowledge explicitly demands objectivity. If you know it, you can show it. If you can't show it, it's not objective..and therefore is not knowledge. More properly, it is a belief.
Fun with words: The objective is to determine the existence of bigfoot. To that end we have deployed objective investigators, in order to objectively determine whether or not this creature exists. Three uses of the term, three distinct connotations in context. All well and good. If, however, we drift back and forth between these connotations in drawing inferences between them our conclusion will be fundamentally uninformative due to textbook equivocation. Or, in other words...being bad at words.
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