RE: Justification for Foundational Belief
July 27, 2012 at 3:25 pm
(This post was last modified: July 27, 2012 at 3:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It isn't that I don't feel confidence in them, rather that I feel less confidence in them than you do, and that all things being equal, our respective levels of confidence don't seem to have a huge effect on whether or not either of us can leverage these principals -to effect- in the first place. We begin at the same place(or thereabouts), take two only slightly different paths, and arrive at the same destination. While I am content to utilize these principles, and I enjoy the results that doing so brings me, there is always the, at least for me, the possibility that some part of what I have been doing is wrong -even if I get the "right" answers in doing as I have done. Specifically, what I cannot overcome, is that in any scenario I am capable of envisioning, it doesn't even matter which reality I would choose to believe in, the result would be the same, and in light of that, I find the idea of believing in any of them pointless. It becomes a word which does not describe how or why I do what I do, if it describes anything about my thoughts at any level whatsoever. At this point, even words like confidence become provisional.
(the religious right and my conversations with them take a whole different tack, I am perfectly comfortable temporarily assuming absolute confidence in these principles at that point, because they have already done so, and aren't looking to have a discussion like this one in the first place, merely to assert that in this reality -whatever it is- their fantasy is a reality -whatever that is, they only begin to flirt with the subject we are discussing here as a scorched earth tactic- when you have politely -or not so politely- declined to swallow the koolaid.)
(the religious right and my conversations with them take a whole different tack, I am perfectly comfortable temporarily assuming absolute confidence in these principles at that point, because they have already done so, and aren't looking to have a discussion like this one in the first place, merely to assert that in this reality -whatever it is- their fantasy is a reality -whatever that is, they only begin to flirt with the subject we are discussing here as a scorched earth tactic- when you have politely -or not so politely- declined to swallow the koolaid.)
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