RE: Argument against atheism
December 23, 2011 at 5:00 pm
(This post was last modified: December 23, 2011 at 5:05 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Which angle would you like to approach your existence from? Do you have any physical evidence? You're asking the question so that would count. Of course you could be a figment of my imagination, and we could make some interesting predictions based on that theory that could be falsified. Or perhaps we're both figments of someone else's imagination, again predictions could be made. Perhaps neither of us exist, or nothing exists, and then we could craft an entirely different model (except in the case of nothing existing, and no model would be needed, because here we are again asking the question so that can be dust-binned out of hand, something, if only this question..exists) which would again be rife with falsifiable predictions. This axiom isn't even much of an axiom, nor is it a statement best handled by philosophy because it is a claim to material reality, and we have better tools for that. In short, you don't have to accept or reject this axiom on it's face. You can look to falsify or confirm. Keep in mind that the axioms of the past are often no longer with us today in the present, so apparently "axioms" (and even their status as "axioms") are not unassailable. They have a history of failing their own definitions of themselves.
It would look a lot like observation, evidence, experimentation, and argumentation over those three things, rather than argumentation over argumentation.
It would look a lot like observation, evidence, experimentation, and argumentation over those three things, rather than argumentation over argumentation.
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