"Our ideas reach no farther than our experience."
I'm probably an odd duck of an atheist, since I'm not a strict empiricist and strict evidentialist. I'm okay with going beyond evidence if and only if all the evidence we have is ambiguous, imprecise, and weak on all sides and going beyond evidence and reason doesn't lead us to run counter to reason and evidence. I think it's okay to believe "I'm not a brain in a vat," "inductive reasoning is reliable," and etc. It's not okay to believe in Young Earth creationism, flat-earth theory and etc.
I'm probably an odd duck of an atheist, since I'm not a strict empiricist and strict evidentialist. I'm okay with going beyond evidence if and only if all the evidence we have is ambiguous, imprecise, and weak on all sides and going beyond evidence and reason doesn't lead us to run counter to reason and evidence. I think it's okay to believe "I'm not a brain in a vat," "inductive reasoning is reliable," and etc. It's not okay to believe in Young Earth creationism, flat-earth theory and etc.
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. - Denis Diderot
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
