RE: My proofs for Islam
November 18, 2018 at 2:38 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2018 at 2:42 pm by Angrboda.)
(November 18, 2018 at 2:29 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(November 18, 2018 at 12:49 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: You believe there is no properly basic beliefs at all?
I don’t think that belief in god is a properly basic belief, nor do I think your assertion that there exists a true, perfectly objective self is a properly basic belief either. I’m not even confident that you have coherently defined the concept. Properly basic beliefs don’t require justification for being believed, but you still have to justify your assertion that it’s a properly basic belief in the first place. I dont think you can do that. In terms of modern foundationalism, at least from what I understand if it, a belief would be qualify a properly basic if there was no way it could be wrong. Your assertion fails on that point, at least.
I'd have to research the matter, but if memory serves, that property, incorrigibilty, is desirable but not required. Just off the top of my head, it would be impossible to prove incorrigibility for many basic beliefs and requiring justification of a belief as basic by requiring showing incorrigibility would seem to cut across the grain of the very concept.
This does bring up an interesting digression, though. While not necessarily conclusive, Munchausen's Trilemma suggests that anything that requires ultimate justification must ultimately cash itself out in terms of basic beliefs, as any other route leads to logical vacuity. This depends upon accepting the assumptions of the Trilemma, specifically with regard to truth and other epistemological issues, but it is a compelling argument on its own.