RE: On Hell and Forgiveness
September 14, 2018 at 5:35 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2018 at 6:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 14, 2018 at 5:28 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Pragmatism has always been crap when it comes to epistemology. It's a useful philosophy but hardly a gold mine for those seeking knowledge.
Pragmatism is crap when it comes to ontology. When something works 99 times out of 100......epistemically, it's as close to truth as counts or as we can know. That's how science and math are fundamentally arranged. Not ontologically, but epistemically, by aggregate of results and accuracy within stated boundary. We define our variables.
Knowledge, in a restrictive sense and with full acknowledgement, is epistemic by definition..even if it might not be ontologically accurate. It's no more and no less than the best we can do, it is provisional, and subject to revision at any time.
Epistemic correspondence/reference theories of truth completely walk around every nihilist objection and are accepted as-such by mereological nihilism because it cannot sensibly contend otherwise. A mereological nihilists strongest contetion is that some x is not literally true, acknowledging that it is meaningfully true within it's implicit and explicit boundaries. I offer this as an example..to our resident christer apologists as to how..if they could separate themselves from railing against their pet causes of "you atheists don't understand objectivity" / "you silly scientists" / "fucking secular morality!".... they could sidestep easy refutation. I appreciate that you may still not agree, Jorg...but handling it in this way puts you in a similar position to those same christers in the absence of such a device. Disagreeing..but for no obvious reason beyond prior ideological commitment.
After all...in handling it this way I can agree with everything you say and still assert myself, rationally.
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