RE: The Case for Atheism
May 11, 2013 at 8:51 am
(This post was last modified: May 11, 2013 at 8:52 am by The Reality Salesman01.)
(May 10, 2013 at 11:15 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(May 10, 2013 at 3:21 pm)Texas Sailor Wrote: Any hypothesis must be equally vulnerable to being shown false as it is for being confirmed.Inductive reasoning works. Is that a falsifiable statement?
Not in the context you used it in. "works" for what? To point one to a conclusion one WANTS to be true? Sure, it works. If we were to determine if one's reason indeed points to truth, the subjects of their analyzation should be grounded in truth and correlate with reality, there has been nothing to show that inductive reasoning is useful when applied to anything beyond that or that anything beyond is a justified assumption at all. I agree that inductive reasoning works, but at what point does this point you to a conclusion that doesn't correlate with truth or verifiable experience? A conclusion to invoke a being? Everything that can be understood rationally is subject to either all logical contingencies, or none of them. You cannot justify using logic to get to a conclusioin and then abandonning it once logic fails to ground it as truth.
(May 11, 2013 at 7:53 am)Esquilax Wrote: Are you seriously that dense that you don't understand that "I don't know," is not any position on a proposition?He he he...