(October 12, 2009 at 10:58 am)solarwave Wrote:(October 10, 2009 at 8:33 pm)padraic Wrote:Quote:1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause of its existence.
Causality is a proposition, not a fact.
Logic suggests but does not guarantee truth.
If logic doesn't guarantee truth then why do you believe anything? Science is based upon proposition back up by data which is understood using logic. So what exactly is your problem?
We seem to have evolved a need for understanding, it was a big part of what helped us survive as a species and is something that i do not believe we will ever leave behind. It may not be essential to believe in any proposition at all, but it is certainly part of the human condition to seek understanding.
Our human logic is not prefect, it is based on the behavior of a familiar universe and will most likely not apply(or will have to be expanded upon) in some circumstances (unified field, superposition, entanglement etc...). In fact, some things could appear to be completely illogical, but that does not mean that they are always not true, only that our logic is not sufficient. The best we can do is accumulate data on a subject and draw our conclusions from that and if (when) we find that our logical models are not sufficient to interpret the findings from the data we will need to adjust our logical models to incorporate the data.
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