(July 18, 2010 at 1:20 pm)Godhead Wrote: It's perfectly rational and convincing, and coherent.It's really not rational and convincing. Even if you claim it's "just a belief", the reasons for believing the belief are completely irrational, hence there is no reason to believe.
There are many things we like that are simply not true (by that I mean non-existent). I'd quite like to have a teleporter, but they don't exist. Me liking an idea (in this case a teleporter) does nothing to affect the existence of said teleporter, and so there is no logical reason to believe it does exist. Indeed, the only way liking an idea can affect the physical manifestation of the idea is if someone gets off their arse and does something about it.
So your logic is fallacious, and so your mantra of "I like it so I believe it" is irrational, and in being irrational, is unconvincing to the rational mind.
You are right on one thing though; it is coherent, but being coherent has nothing to do with being rational or convincing.
