RE: Share your worldview?
February 6, 2018 at 5:51 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2018 at 5:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 6, 2018 at 5:47 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: I'm not pushing fairytales or giving any gnostic position more credit than it's due. Simply saying that an unknown is an unknown.I'd hardly consider the truth status of afterlife stories an unknown..so I'm not sure why it would matter that tautologies are true?
Quote:And just to use up the rest of my daily Socrates quote allotment, I will add that Socrates said "The only thing I know is I know nothing."Then he doesn't know that's the only thing he knows, because he knows nothing. Platitude.
Quote:Obviously, Socrates knew something, but he kept his mind open--not to give fairytales consideration--but to ensure that he didn't cut himself off from the truth by forming prejudices.All well and good, but I don't see anyone cutting themselves off from the truth by acknowledging it. We do not survive our deaths (aren't tautologies still true, lol?), there is no afterlife. It's not an issue of likelihood or the unknown.
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