RE: Argument against atheism
December 23, 2011 at 5:38 pm
(This post was last modified: December 23, 2011 at 5:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
But reason may not be, and If I encounter a situation that makes this plainly clear I'll have to put some serious legwork into it. No axiom required, and I do not subscribe to such an axiom in the first place. It is again a falsifiable statement. We need only find a false positive that reason would strongly suggest. We've done so in the past btw, that's how the system was developed in the first place, trial and error. Obviously we trashed those lines of "reasoning" that we found were not valid, nonetheless, what remains merely remains under the header because it is a convenient title. To assume that "reason" is a complete system is to assume complete knowledge. I have no such illusions, obviously.
Speaking of reason and knowledge. One tiny mistake and "reason" can lead to some pretty innacurate "facts". Cue apologists. The mistake may not lie in the use of reason at all, but what is "generally accepted to be true" and used as an assertion. Many things that were wildly innacurate have been "generally accepted to be true". Again, to challenge them, or even to form them in the first place you have to add something into the system. Evidence works for that pretty well.
Speaking of reason and knowledge. One tiny mistake and "reason" can lead to some pretty innacurate "facts". Cue apologists. The mistake may not lie in the use of reason at all, but what is "generally accepted to be true" and used as an assertion. Many things that were wildly innacurate have been "generally accepted to be true". Again, to challenge them, or even to form them in the first place you have to add something into the system. Evidence works for that pretty well.
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