RE: Answers needed
June 27, 2015 at 8:36 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2015 at 8:39 am by robvalue.)
I agree there is no reason to think anything supernatural does exist. It's just something that can't be ruled out by its very nature. This is why unfalsifiable propositions are useless. They amount to useless extra assumptions.
Of course, we can never be sure our thinking is correct. This is more to do with the inability to detach our reason and thoughts from our fallible brains than anything else. And there's the problem of solipsism. Science accounts for all this as much as possible, and attempts to remove any individual error. But if we're all making the same error over and over between us, then we're making an error. It's a possibility, but that doesn't make it true, and it doesn't rationalise an appeal to a load of magic. We'd simply be wrong due to our limitations. So what? No one of any integrity would claim to know anything 100% for certain. Any proposed solution/conclusion drawn from this goes through the same fallible filter as everything else, so doesn't come out all clean and rosy.
Of course, we can never be sure our thinking is correct. This is more to do with the inability to detach our reason and thoughts from our fallible brains than anything else. And there's the problem of solipsism. Science accounts for all this as much as possible, and attempts to remove any individual error. But if we're all making the same error over and over between us, then we're making an error. It's a possibility, but that doesn't make it true, and it doesn't rationalise an appeal to a load of magic. We'd simply be wrong due to our limitations. So what? No one of any integrity would claim to know anything 100% for certain. Any proposed solution/conclusion drawn from this goes through the same fallible filter as everything else, so doesn't come out all clean and rosy.
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