(October 15, 2014 at 7:38 am)Esquilax Wrote: That's the problem with what he's saying though: we're fully aware, I would think, that we don't have a guarantee that the chair will hold us. But the way Carm is talking is entirely binary, as though with either have total certainty that the chair will hold us, or we have no evidence that the chair will hold anything at all. He says he "has no facts that show the chair will hold hold him." But of course he does, they just aren't sure shot, magic bullet concrete objective truths.
If he really is talking about guarantees then he's working from an absurd false dichotomy, at the end of the day.
Faith in a chair is faith nonetheless. The point of the exercise is to demonstrate how faith works. In that it succeeds.