(October 2, 2019 at 9:17 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: How do you know, given an continuous history of ever expanding knowledge base explaining every more of the hitherto inexplicable, what can not be explained in principle can not be explained?Because we are limited beings with particular powers of perception in an ever-expanding environment. There is truth that we cannot observe our way to because of our limited perception, and truths we cannot logically prove because the parameters of observable reality are not set in an axiomatic system.
Quote:Any bullshit has a possibility, but only the most infinitesimal one, of actually being closer to the truth than we could otherwise reach. . Your "supernatural" is still indistinguishable both in its nature and in its effects from bullshit. It has no more possibility of being true than any bullshit. You merely combine egoism with idiocy so unselfconsciously that you could assert with a straight face bullshit that appeals to you is better than bullshit of other kind.If I thought it was bullshit, I wouldn't believe it. So you can be sure that I'm sincere and not trying to assert some egotistical or elitist secret knowledge. Not everything that we cannot directly prove to everyone else is bullshit, and something that is consistent with facts and logic is less likely to be bullshit than something that is not.
