RE: My View on Belief vs. Knowledge
February 28, 2015 at 12:40 pm
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2015 at 12:41 pm by Ignorant.)
I don't intend to make a "counterargument" because I have had nothing to counter yet. Most people don't talk in arguments. Most people talk back and forth with questions about what they think and more questions to tease out implications. You don't sound harsh, but you maybe sound frustrated.
Hopefully, when I have been asked a question, I have responded with a concrete answer. But if you would like me to back out of the conversation, I am happy to do that as well.
Can we ever know that something cannot be false? That is the next logical question isn't it? That is what Descartes set out to discover. The point is that, the answer to this question, and the manner in which you answer it, will be the criteria by which you can "order" all other terms describing the manners by which the intellectual holds/asserts that things are true.
Why does it have to be a dispute? Why does someone have to win? Is it possible for people to just talk about reality in an attempt to arrive at a mutually better understanding of things?
Hopefully, when I have been asked a question, I have responded with a concrete answer. But if you would like me to back out of the conversation, I am happy to do that as well.
Can we ever know that something cannot be false? That is the next logical question isn't it? That is what Descartes set out to discover. The point is that, the answer to this question, and the manner in which you answer it, will be the criteria by which you can "order" all other terms describing the manners by which the intellectual holds/asserts that things are true.
(February 28, 2015 at 12:32 pm)whateverist Wrote: I am literally reading a dispute between ignorance and irrationality. I wonder which will win?
Why does it have to be a dispute? Why does someone have to win? Is it possible for people to just talk about reality in an attempt to arrive at a mutually better understanding of things?
