(May 8, 2013 at 12:50 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: As for myself, I have made an existential choice to believe that inductive reasoning, the very basis of the scientific method, works for a reason. The other option is to maintain that it works for no reason at all. And if it works for no reason at all, then it could just as easily stop working.
You will, very regretably, continue to exist even if you were to rise far above yourself and throw out the reasons you conjured up for why it works.
So it is not an existential choice. It is a petulent election of a mind unable to ween itself from the infantile comfort of the fairy tale.