(February 1, 2013 at 7:22 pm)Ryantology Wrote:(February 1, 2013 at 12:09 pm)Question Mark Wrote: Well I disagree with you, and I don't appreciate you belittling my argument like that. One can only know through experience, if you've tested it personally. I know gravity works because I've picked something up and dropped it, thus experienced it. I believe that jumping off a building will hurt because in every instance I've ever seen other people do it, it hurt them, and because I have a working understanding of physics and the limitations of the human anatomy.
Then there's faith, of course. Jumping off a building will hurt because someone told me it will.
I know falling hurts, because every time I've fallen, it has hurt to some degree. My knowledge of the relationship between falling and feeling pain, which I earned through experience, allows me to know that falling from atop a building will hurt.
And that knowledge is founded in experience. You've experienced falling, and it's hurt each time. Falling again, will likely hurt again.
All I'm saying is that if someone hasn't ever fallen, they wouldn't know. They'd only have a belief based on evidence.
