RE: What makes people irrational thinkers?
January 4, 2022 at 3:15 pm
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2022 at 3:22 pm by Paleophyte.)
(January 4, 2022 at 1:47 pm)GrandizerII Wrote: How would science go about establishing that physical reality is necessary or contingent? Not saying it's not possible, but it seems like the best we can do is to rely on intuition as to what would do for something to be metaphysically necessary or contingent.
Intuition is handy for making split second decisions based on incomplete information but it is lousy at arriving at the truth. Our intuition tells us that the world is flat.
(January 4, 2022 at 3:04 pm)polymath257 Wrote:(January 4, 2022 at 3:01 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Instead of bickering about who has the burden of proof, which presupposes a single default position, we can ask if a person's belief is warranted. This allows people to show epistemic humility, respect uncertainty, and disagree with ascribing the beliefs of others to some character flaw.
OK, is Hart's position that physical reality is inherently contingent warranted?
More interestingly, upon what is physical reality contingent?
And is it even logically possible for physical reality to be contingent? Without physical reality we are left with...?
