RE: Search for Causes
January 2, 2020 at 11:02 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2020 at 11:20 pm by LadyForCamus.)
(January 2, 2020 at 5:14 pm)Lek Wrote:(January 2, 2020 at 3:36 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Your reasoning is still circular, Lek. Can’t you see that you’re setting your self up for confirmation bias? If you start with praying to god for a sign, then you’re going to interpret everything that happens after the fact as exactly that, rather than through an objective lens. And, then you’ll conclude god was the most likely cause. That is erroneous reasoning.
When you try to determine the cause for anything is one of your considerations that it was caused by supernatural means?
I like to think I keep an open mind. But, the problem with considering the supernatural as a cause, is that no one can tell me what a supernatural thing actually is, and why it is disqualified from the category of ‘natural’. As far as I can tell, the best description of the supernatural we currently have is, “some event that occurred in the natural world that we don’t have an explanation for yet.” How am I supposed to evaluate whether it’s likely or not that the cause of some phenomenon was supernatural when I don’t even know what it is, or what evidence of it would look like? If the only evidence for a supernatural cause is the lack of a natural explanation...well...that’s no evidence at all. It’s just an argument from ignorance fallacy. Lek, if you can’t test for the supernatural, why would you even consider it a possibility?
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
