RE: Refuting Plantinga's God and Other Minds
November 12, 2013 at 11:17 pm
(This post was last modified: November 12, 2013 at 11:18 pm by henryp.)
The easy example of 'other minds' is a dream. Your dream-self usually thinks everyone else has a mind, and is incorrect.
Is his argument, that any explanation that could be deemed 'plausible' doesn't necessarily have to be founded in things that are concrete, because essentially, all our beliefs are based on one concrete idea, that we have a mind, and the rest is a series of assumptions branching out from that?
It looks like he's an intelligent design guy, so he'd be wanting to say that you don't need concrete evidence for the idea of God designing this versus it being happenstance to be a plausible belief. With the sheer improbability and order of our existence making the case for it to be not chance?
I don't know that he's particularly wrong with the premise you don't need concrete evidence to believe something to be true. My belief that the universe's origin is some fancy math and science explanation that is unknown to me isn't much more concrete. But there's plenty of paradoxical nonsense regarding God existing that makes believing him silly, so it's kind of a moot point.
Is his argument, that any explanation that could be deemed 'plausible' doesn't necessarily have to be founded in things that are concrete, because essentially, all our beliefs are based on one concrete idea, that we have a mind, and the rest is a series of assumptions branching out from that?
It looks like he's an intelligent design guy, so he'd be wanting to say that you don't need concrete evidence for the idea of God designing this versus it being happenstance to be a plausible belief. With the sheer improbability and order of our existence making the case for it to be not chance?
I don't know that he's particularly wrong with the premise you don't need concrete evidence to believe something to be true. My belief that the universe's origin is some fancy math and science explanation that is unknown to me isn't much more concrete. But there's plenty of paradoxical nonsense regarding God existing that makes believing him silly, so it's kind of a moot point.
