Self-evident truth is a thing
May 9, 2014 at 12:19 pm
(This post was last modified: May 9, 2014 at 12:22 pm by Rampant.A.I..)
(May 9, 2014 at 12:21 am)Losty Wrote: Why do people find saying "I don't know" to be so painful that they would resort to inventing ridiculous stories and claim them as fact?
What caused the universe?
The only way to answer this question honestly is to say that you do not know.
Human nature. Look at the Greeks, or other significantly advanced historical societies, who were able to work out facts about the world that still hold true today, but when it came to things they couldn't explain, they started confabulating.
(May 8, 2014 at 11:55 pm)eyemixer Wrote:(May 8, 2014 at 10:18 pm)Avodaiah Wrote: You're asking how I can say it's possible? Because any other alternative is impossible.
Do you mean it must be possible because you are not capable of imagining any other alternative?
This is the same problem with "logical necessity," in that it's circular question-begging logic. Necessity and self-evidence would only make sense in a theoretical world where all possible evidence had already been gathered.
