RE: Arguments Against Thomistic philosophy
January 25, 2018 at 7:21 am
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2018 at 7:23 am by Mystic.)
I'd rather you guys have it believe that I am not genuine than to think it's possible to truthfully believe without doubt in something that is not knowledge, and that that is possible without a firm conclusive proof.
I'd rather you guys think that I realize I am not sure deep inside, that to confuse the issue of knowledge.
It's impossible to be 100% honest to yourself whether you are justified to be certain, and for that to be wrong.
If it's possible for you to be honest to yourself that you know while it's that you don't know, then there is no way to know anything truthfully.
You will say yes you can know by evidence something is true, but that is not enough, you have to know you understood the evidence and proofs to prove the thing beyond doubt.
Certainty has the following criteria:
1. You can't be equating what you believe by conjecture with what you know for certain, if you do so, your knowledge will be all confused in a mess, and you don't know anymore when you really are justified or not, because you believe in somethings out of your desires and think it's knowledge, but really is conjecture, and there are somethings you do know but then out of your desire you don't acknowledge.
2. You have to be honest with what you don't really know to know what you do know, and you have to be honest with what you know to know what you don't. So honesty is requirement, but it also works the other way. If you are honest, you will acknowledge what you should know by certainty and you will know what you are allowed to doubt because it has not been proven to you.
3. It's a reflective vision that sees the proofs clearly and affirms them. If you haven't reflected on proofs and can't see when something is proven. You ought to begin to reflect in your own way, so that you can learn to prove things in how your mind functions.
4. It seeks help and all means necessary to arrive at the truth, it's genuine in seeking the truth, and doesn't care who says it.
5. It is humble to the extent it accepts truth from a child.
6. It is strength to the extent that if the whole world disagreeing and be blind to it's sight will not deter it, just as the whole world believing in something won't convince it.
I'd rather you guys think that I realize I am not sure deep inside, that to confuse the issue of knowledge.
It's impossible to be 100% honest to yourself whether you are justified to be certain, and for that to be wrong.
If it's possible for you to be honest to yourself that you know while it's that you don't know, then there is no way to know anything truthfully.
You will say yes you can know by evidence something is true, but that is not enough, you have to know you understood the evidence and proofs to prove the thing beyond doubt.
Certainty has the following criteria:
1. You can't be equating what you believe by conjecture with what you know for certain, if you do so, your knowledge will be all confused in a mess, and you don't know anymore when you really are justified or not, because you believe in somethings out of your desires and think it's knowledge, but really is conjecture, and there are somethings you do know but then out of your desire you don't acknowledge.
2. You have to be honest with what you don't really know to know what you do know, and you have to be honest with what you know to know what you don't. So honesty is requirement, but it also works the other way. If you are honest, you will acknowledge what you should know by certainty and you will know what you are allowed to doubt because it has not been proven to you.
3. It's a reflective vision that sees the proofs clearly and affirms them. If you haven't reflected on proofs and can't see when something is proven. You ought to begin to reflect in your own way, so that you can learn to prove things in how your mind functions.
4. It seeks help and all means necessary to arrive at the truth, it's genuine in seeking the truth, and doesn't care who says it.
5. It is humble to the extent it accepts truth from a child.
6. It is strength to the extent that if the whole world disagreeing and be blind to it's sight will not deter it, just as the whole world believing in something won't convince it.
