RE: Anyone here a Category 7?
August 22, 2018 at 3:12 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2018 at 3:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
IKR, lol? I can only decide that I have the same level of confidence, for the same reasons, in the proposition "the sun rises in the east" as I do "there are no dragons" and "god's don't exist". Similarly, I can only decide that I find the same sorts of objections to those statements compelling or uncompelling in equal measure and equal application.
It's not as if I cant find some idiosyncratic or semantic defeater for either proposition (or any proposition), it's more that they don't affect either knowledge claim. I can concede a thor planet or a dragon planet and still maintain my confidence in the propositions denying their existence. In the case of gods..it's positively baked in. I know what gods exist as, and that's -why- I know that they don't exist. While it may seem semantically confusing, it's content is flatly coherent.
A large portion of the thread has been people expressing their frustration at idiosyncratic definitions (for truth, knowledge, gods, exist, etc) and semantic equivalence (gods..like..the universe, man!). I don't feel those frustrations..because, like gods, I recognize them for what they are, lol.
It's not as if I cant find some idiosyncratic or semantic defeater for either proposition (or any proposition), it's more that they don't affect either knowledge claim. I can concede a thor planet or a dragon planet and still maintain my confidence in the propositions denying their existence. In the case of gods..it's positively baked in. I know what gods exist as, and that's -why- I know that they don't exist. While it may seem semantically confusing, it's content is flatly coherent.
A large portion of the thread has been people expressing their frustration at idiosyncratic definitions (for truth, knowledge, gods, exist, etc) and semantic equivalence (gods..like..the universe, man!). I don't feel those frustrations..because, like gods, I recognize them for what they are, lol.
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