RE: Non-existence
August 11, 2009 at 6:27 pm
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2009 at 6:39 pm by Jon Paul.)
(August 11, 2009 at 6:18 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: So god exists because you have had personal, unverifiable, experience with him? Fair enough, as with Bigfoot and UFO sightings, but I will withhold my vote for god until there is more proof or my own personal revelation that isn't easily chalked up to delusion.Well, I don't have knowledge of Bigfoot or UFOs, so it would be irrational for me to accept those beliefs on grounds of an experience - when it is simply not there in my case.
There would be no way to exclude a priori that some people have experience that would justify belief in it. But I could not make a positive affirmation of it either, since I don't know it to be true.
Though they are not actual foundational (basic) beliefs, which excludes them from the possibility of being properly basic as is theism.
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