RE: An atheists guide to reality
March 8, 2014 at 10:50 am
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2014 at 10:51 am by Whateverist.)
(March 6, 2014 at 5:58 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: You really are clueless about the infinite regress of getting meaning from something else that gets its meaning from something else, etc.
But if your idea of a remedy is to define into existence an abstract notion of a prime mover, how is that supposed to help exactly? All these arguments from logical necessity always strike me as lame. Rather than point to apparent conceptual conflicts and then make up a solution that gives you peace of mind, why not just admit you know far less than everything? Remember concepts are overlays for reality. Reality is what it is. It isn't required to conform to our best cognitive models. There is no guarantee that our very best attempt to conceptualize how everything goes together will ever be entirely adequate.