RE: Argument against atheism
December 24, 2011 at 9:38 pm
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2011 at 10:36 pm by Perhaps.)
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Philosophy/axioms/axioms/
The answers to everything you've proposed are contained within this link. If you don't want my words, then hear these. You have made an argument out of a discussion. You have chosen that one must be correct and the other must be wrong. I did not choose this, but now I am a part of this.
As much as my knowledge of science has been criticized, I have never criticized your understanding of philosophy. But now I must.
You continue to refer to the assumption of knowledge. I refer to the assumption of existence, also known as axioms or memes. If you don't understand what they are, then simply look them up. I'm not going to keep coming back to your arguments against my statements, as they have no merit.
If I say the sky is blue and you respond by saying no, the grass is green, then my original statement is not falsified, nor does your statement have anything to do with mine.
The answers to everything you've proposed are contained within this link. If you don't want my words, then hear these. You have made an argument out of a discussion. You have chosen that one must be correct and the other must be wrong. I did not choose this, but now I am a part of this.
As much as my knowledge of science has been criticized, I have never criticized your understanding of philosophy. But now I must.
(December 24, 2011 at 7:23 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: For example, I do not assume I'm going to die someday. Death is something that is true, something we've all seen and/or experienced in some way or other. It is a biological fact, not a proposition. Then to prove a "point" you descended into a childish infinite regress argument.
You continue to refer to the assumption of knowledge. I refer to the assumption of existence, also known as axioms or memes. If you don't understand what they are, then simply look them up. I'm not going to keep coming back to your arguments against my statements, as they have no merit.
If I say the sky is blue and you respond by saying no, the grass is green, then my original statement is not falsified, nor does your statement have anything to do with mine.
Brevity is the soul of wit.