RE: Atheist VS Naturalist - the latter sounds more appealing to me...
June 5, 2020 at 8:44 pm
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2020 at 8:46 pm by polymath257.)
(June 5, 2020 at 10:12 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: -and in order for our logical systems, or math, to confidently model the real world, their products must point to some real world observation as validation, and must make falsifiable predictions that remain unobserved in the real world.
A single married bachelor would be the end of reason. A precambrian rabbit would be the end of biology. If one plus one equaled three, it would be the end of math.
Don't be so sure.
While an unmarried bachelor would strain definitions, the law of excluded middle has been challenged when applied to infinite sets.
A precambrian rabbit would certainly overthrow our ideas in biology. But we could still pick up the pieces and do the science of biology.
Remember that 120 years ago, the conservation of mass was considered a linchpin in physics. Now, not so much.
And I know of mathematical systems where 3=1+1+1=1+1=2 that work perfectly well.
