RE: The most horrifying journey, this is what doubting 'everything' does.
April 2, 2018 at 9:37 pm
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2018 at 9:40 pm by Mystic.)
(April 2, 2018 at 8:48 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Theist or nontheist, one must accept axiomatic truth. Otherwise, you can't make a single rational argument. Not accepting a single axiom means that you deny that any knowledge is possible. If you deny that any knowledge is possible, why argue anything in the first place? "Axioms do not exist" is a self-defeating position.
I don't believe in axioms, but believe knowledge is possible. And I don't believe knowledge is possible by it being an axiom.
It's self-defeating position if the point is to argue. Yeah nothing can be proven, because, anyone can say well how do you know that.
Axioms also open a way to be lazy and just assert what you don't feel like justifying to just be an axiom.
It makes it easy to do away with the journey to knowing true nature of knowledge and certainty and reflection.
What can be evident to someone can be unclear to someone else.
In my Deist years, I heavily depended on axioms being properly basic.
I don't believe anything is. You have to see what you believe based on living proof.
And that fact is not an axiom, but you realize through life experience.
