RE: No reason justifies disbelief.
March 22, 2019 at 12:14 pm
(This post was last modified: March 22, 2019 at 12:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Awesome...so....let's ratchet up the dial, shall we? What if I were to posit, pursuant to the above upon which we have agreed, that we can intuit and deduce....that among the things we know, empirical facts can never give us the whole picture? That no amount of empirical instances proves the necessity of some truth? That a necessary truth, then, does not and cannot depend on individual instances of empirical facts.
We possess knowledge about our external world, necessary truths. Necessary truths, however, do not and cannot depend on individual instances of truth, therefore we can deduce that knowledge does not depend on sense experience.
I'll pause here.
There's a range of alleged metaphysical truths that, if true, mean that a range of physics is false. By contraposition, thus, we can state that if (or whatever amongst) that range of physics is true..then the corresponding range of metaphysics is false.
The problem that metaphysics faces, in this..is that the range of physics we are willing to say "are true" has become immensely larger than it once was and continues to grow. Every single tiny item of physics added to that pile necessarily renders it's contrapositive metaphysical claim obsolescent. Just like god, metaphysics is shrinking, and just like theologians, metaphysicians keep insisting that their subject lies in whatever remains of that tightening chasm.
Or, you know..in pig english, "but what about -this- unanswered question, huh..checkmate!"
It's a shitty spot to be stuck in, and I can easily sympathize...it's very much akin to the collapse of the scientific notions of aether and phlogiston, or the slow rolling execution of the psychogenic homunculus.
We possess knowledge about our external world, necessary truths. Necessary truths, however, do not and cannot depend on individual instances of truth, therefore we can deduce that knowledge does not depend on sense experience.
I'll pause here.
(March 22, 2019 at 12:03 pm)Jehanne Wrote: For instance, if we posses souls/or spirits that cause the electrons in our brains to move, then the Conservation laws (namely, energy, momentum and angular momentum) are false.
There's a range of alleged metaphysical truths that, if true, mean that a range of physics is false. By contraposition, thus, we can state that if (or whatever amongst) that range of physics is true..then the corresponding range of metaphysics is false.
The problem that metaphysics faces, in this..is that the range of physics we are willing to say "are true" has become immensely larger than it once was and continues to grow. Every single tiny item of physics added to that pile necessarily renders it's contrapositive metaphysical claim obsolescent. Just like god, metaphysics is shrinking, and just like theologians, metaphysicians keep insisting that their subject lies in whatever remains of that tightening chasm.
Or, you know..in pig english, "but what about -this- unanswered question, huh..checkmate!"
It's a shitty spot to be stuck in, and I can easily sympathize...it's very much akin to the collapse of the scientific notions of aether and phlogiston, or the slow rolling execution of the psychogenic homunculus.
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