RE: Justification for Foundational Belief
August 6, 2012 at 4:05 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2012 at 4:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Genk, try emotions -as- heuristic. You may find common ground with Jon. Unreliable as it pertains to your metrics? Sure. Reliable as it pertains to our history as a species, yep...absolutely.
Shortcuts to "knowledge".
Please dont misunderstand me here, I'm not insinuating that emotion would be a better arbitrator of knowledge as we currently define it, but as a functional piece of humanity- they work pretty damned well. To take a line from you Genk - any sort of morality (for example) would take into account the "nature" of the species in question -in order to be objective and relevant-. Well, ignore emotion and you ignore large portion of what it means to be human. Those things which we "know" by emotional response are a large portion of what we "know", and assuming that your emotions do not play into what seems "self evident" to you, or what forms your "foundational beliefs" is probably an exercise in absurdity. You are not immune. At the very least, you feel satisfaction with your answers, regardless of whether or not you can justify them logically (as anything other than axioms). Yes?
Shortcuts to "knowledge".
Please dont misunderstand me here, I'm not insinuating that emotion would be a better arbitrator of knowledge as we currently define it, but as a functional piece of humanity- they work pretty damned well. To take a line from you Genk - any sort of morality (for example) would take into account the "nature" of the species in question -in order to be objective and relevant-. Well, ignore emotion and you ignore large portion of what it means to be human. Those things which we "know" by emotional response are a large portion of what we "know", and assuming that your emotions do not play into what seems "self evident" to you, or what forms your "foundational beliefs" is probably an exercise in absurdity. You are not immune. At the very least, you feel satisfaction with your answers, regardless of whether or not you can justify them logically (as anything other than axioms). Yes?
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