RE: Illustrating the burden of proof - pay me!
February 8, 2022 at 1:40 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2022 at 1:51 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I think we make progress in considering these things when it comes to working out what issue(s) we are genuinely concerned with in a given proposition. It's difficult to imagine how we could have a productive discussion, let alone resolve those issues (if they're resolvable) if we routinely fail to accurately communicate them.
A god or a universe that can't be any other way proposes a fundamental accident of circumstance or nature to explain the present conditions.
I think that it's probably difficult for people, even believing people, to articulate their issues with physicalism or empiricism or evidence. We're all pretty well indoctrinated into thinking in those terms here. So much so that our objections to those things commonly boil down to affirmations of the very principles to which we might wish to object. John attempts an evidentiary case for his position against the very term evidence. Neo explains that the arbitrary and accidental gods we've so long conceived of are poor propositions. It was very clearly neither mans intention to do so, and yet....
A god or a universe that can't be any other way proposes a fundamental accident of circumstance or nature to explain the present conditions.
I think that it's probably difficult for people, even believing people, to articulate their issues with physicalism or empiricism or evidence. We're all pretty well indoctrinated into thinking in those terms here. So much so that our objections to those things commonly boil down to affirmations of the very principles to which we might wish to object. John attempts an evidentiary case for his position against the very term evidence. Neo explains that the arbitrary and accidental gods we've so long conceived of are poor propositions. It was very clearly neither mans intention to do so, and yet....
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