RE: Argument against atheism
December 23, 2011 at 4:31 pm
(This post was last modified: December 23, 2011 at 4:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Respect or admiration for the principles and history behind that bit of socrates is all fine and well. Of course, down the rabbit hole we go. How could he then know that he didn't know anything? Unproductive, no, not even unproductive; counterproductive nonsense. Perfectly understandable for a person living in a time where the only tool one had to try and discover anything with was their mind. We have better explanations for the limitations of our minds and thought processes, better explanations of the sorts of bias and fuzzy thinking that we engage in (and why we would do such a thing), and importantly much better tools than our own minds, and still people are quoting ancient philosophy as though it were gospel?
If all one uses to determine anything is their mind, if the thing that they are attempting to describe cannot be shown to exist anywhere outside of their mind, and if the concept brings with it thorny issues about itself and it's relationship to reality........then it's a safe bet to say that it's an issue with the mind, and the manner in which we form our thoughts, and not the world outside of the mind, or anything that exists independently of our thoughts. We understand that one can leverage a terribly flawed argument and reach a factually accurate conclusion nonetheless. That's a canary in the mine. I prefer something a little meatier than words and thoughts.
If all one uses to determine anything is their mind, if the thing that they are attempting to describe cannot be shown to exist anywhere outside of their mind, and if the concept brings with it thorny issues about itself and it's relationship to reality........then it's a safe bet to say that it's an issue with the mind, and the manner in which we form our thoughts, and not the world outside of the mind, or anything that exists independently of our thoughts. We understand that one can leverage a terribly flawed argument and reach a factually accurate conclusion nonetheless. That's a canary in the mine. I prefer something a little meatier than words and thoughts.
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