RE: How to beat a presupp at their own game
March 18, 2021 at 11:20 am
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2021 at 11:29 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 18, 2021 at 10:03 am)Superjock Wrote: Then he will ask : How do you know you exist? In fact I just had a conversation with a theist a few minutes ago and he asked me how do I know I exist? Well I said to him that I can't NOT exist. Maybe I should have refined what I meant to say. How do we know anything at all?
You have to start somewhere - with a base presupposition that you exist. Right? I mean, we could be living in a simulation which is what he was getting at. And he kept saying well why should I try and convince someone, an atheist, that God exists when they don't even know if they exist or the universe exists.
It's a good question, what would the point be, of trying to convince a person of anything, if they have concerns about the impossibility of knowledge?
Say, if a person sits in wide eyed wonder at how another person might know their own name, or that they exist.
I'm starting to think that you may be dealing with a person who thinks he's laying brilliant rhetorical traps for the other guy, but something else just keeps happening, instead...atheism isn't the belief that knowledge is impossible - but if your friend wants to chase that bird......
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