(July 5, 2014 at 9:55 am)ignoramus Wrote: I'm not very comfortable in either gnostic atheists or gnostic theists.
To us the difference between a theist and a gnostic theist is their level of arrogance!
For we believe that "they" cannot know what they think they know.
Same reasoning goes for gnostic athiests.
For all we know, all the gods live in another universe not bound to our laws.
We can never really know, can we?
I don't really see a problem with either, though I would use the term strong. But my thoughts are this: I see knowledge as a belief that is true and is justified, i.e the classical definition of knowledge. So long as your belief is sufficiently justified, it seems reasonable to call that knowledge. However, you seem to be confusing knowledge with certainty. There are things I know, yet am not certain about (say, complex mathematical equations or something), because certainty is just a feeling and doesn't really seem to have anything directly to do with knowledge.
The whole gods in other universes thing doesn't make much sense to me. Sure, you can postulate that but seeing as we don't seem to have any good reason to a) think other universes exist and b) that they are so different as to allow for supernatural entities to exist, we have no good reason to think gods do or can exist. And not having a good reason to think something is true is a good reason to be at least inclined that it is false.
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