(October 11, 2010 at 4:14 am)solja247 Wrote:Quote:Why we don't believe in God is (usually) because there is absolutely no evidence indicating such a being exists
I have never understood that. Just because YOU dont believe in God doesnt mean He doesnt exist, it doesnt make sense.
You're so typical solja, what I give a shit about is the reasons FOR belief, not whether I can disprove every silly belief that people come up with - Basically, I want to be rational in my beliefs. In order to be rational in believing something you need to have good reasons for belief, arguments for a belief that when applied to other examples cannot allow parallel arguments that are clearly absurd (such as how Plantinga's "Proper basic" belief 'justification' for faith cannot rule out the FSM without becoming internally contradictory) and contradictory conclusions (such as personal experience that has been used to justify literally millions of contradictory metaphysical statements).
These epistemic standards are the very minimum for justification, and upon examination of a belief if one can not justify it then the only rational thing to do is withhold positive belief (and thus decisions informed by the belief) until such time as there becomes sufficient justification for it. Some beliefs as pre-examined assumptions are fine, you could say that belief is warranted in situations like asking someone for the time, even though you have no evidence that they are telling you the truth, this sort of warrant forming process could be called a type of process reliablism, where as the system for forming justified belief is evidentialism, the idea that an idea need be best supported by evidence (including logic) in order to be a justified belief.
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