RE: Equality.
March 16, 2014 at 6:57 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2014 at 6:59 pm by LastPoet.)
MysticKnight Wrote:Many of the things are not provable by analysis unless we agree upon some axioms. There are other things which are known by experience or innately and are simply to be reminded about or when spoken about, reveal what we innately know or have experienced.You do realize what the word 'delusion' means, right? Axioms regard formal logic & math. If you apply axioms at will, like religion does, without regard to logical consequences and taking advantage of informal speech you are bound to be wrong.
I do care about what it is true. If I was convinced I was deluding myself into thinking God exists, I would not be able to think/believe God exists.
Take the notion of a deist god: That is an axiom deists take. Can you construct a logic, a structure based on that, without adding axioms of your own? If not, then what's the point?
Do notice that axioms in math & formal logic, although not completely solid, they are based on reality. Take it like the law of no contradiction in logic. I can tell you the difference between being burned and not being burned, I can then say that if something is true and false is always false. It is an axiom, but its something I can show you to be true.