RE: Why is doubt good?
August 9, 2012 at 11:50 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2012 at 11:51 pm by Jeffonthenet.)
Quote:(August 8, 2012 at 2:19 pm)Jeffonthenet Wrote: How do you know that I do not?
How do you know that he does not know that you do not, you know?
How do you know that I think that he does not know that you do not know?
My point is that doubting everything by default leads to an infinite regress and a sort of intellectual absurdity.
A point in my life when doubt was bad: when I doubted that cigarettes could get me into an almost unbreakable addiction if I just smoked them when I was stressed.
"the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate" (1 Cor. 1:19)
