(July 8, 2012 at 9:43 am)FallentoReason Wrote: I know my memory works because I can rip out my keyboard, smash it against my head and make every key pop out. I can then walk out of the room, remember what I have just done, walk back in and find the evidence that proves my memory was accurate and disproves your mad argument. And yes, while all of this happened time WAS TICKING meaning that the universe didn't pop into existence halfway through smashing my keyboard or even after.
You're really not even reading, are you?
"I know my memory is accurate because of my memory!"
You can't cite your memory as evidence that your memory is accurate. This is the same bullshit that theists do with the Bible.
"Oh, I can do something, then later I'll remember doing it, and this means my memory is accurate." No, it means that at some time, you'll remember having done it. How do you know that this memory is accurate?
You're just saying, "If my memory is accurate, then my memory is accurate." That is, "If I do something, and remember it accurately, then my memory of doing it is accurate." Well, no shit.
Quote:Why do not not believe the past was real? If you remember my philosophical point about the present most likely not existing then what does that mean for you? That you simply don't exist????
Prove me wrong. Until then all these baseless assertions are useless.
Stop with this bullshit. Questioning how you know p doesn't mean I think p is false.
I don't have to prove you wrong. You have to justify your assumptions--unless you're okay just taking things on faith, without evidence. But that wouldn't make you a very consistent evidentialist.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
