RE: No reason justifies disbelief.
March 21, 2019 at 11:35 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2019 at 11:49 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You're out of your gourd. Empirical physics answers why questions with regularity. Why does a ball roll downhill?
The trouble with both metaphysics and immaterial whatsists is that they are incapable of providing any demonstration of their own basic validity even on their own terms. This is a known known and a problem for metaphysics and the immaterial that no one has been able to resolve thusfar. The minute you start using words like "evidence" you begin to explicitly invoke empiricism and physics.
If you wish to assert that there are clearly metaphysical questions and answers..or immaterial questions and answers...you must at least demonstrate that that there is at least one thing in either set. Empiricism and physics have satisfied this very basic necessity. The agnostic atheist position is...explicitly, a position derived from empiricism and physics. If you wish to contend that some acceptance of metaphysics and immaterialism are "like that" in any menaingful way...then you are tacitly admitting that the two things are misnomers for regular old physics...and empiricism.
It has never ceased to amaze me how people fail to realize how incredibly high stakes this practiced avoidance of any responsibility of demonstration or means of demonstraton is. In the absence of any clear dilineation between meatphysics and physics, betrn empiricism and non-empirical whatsits,....physics and empiricism stomp the living shit out of the competition. Reducing them to non entities on their own grounds
The trouble with both metaphysics and immaterial whatsists is that they are incapable of providing any demonstration of their own basic validity even on their own terms. This is a known known and a problem for metaphysics and the immaterial that no one has been able to resolve thusfar. The minute you start using words like "evidence" you begin to explicitly invoke empiricism and physics.
If you wish to assert that there are clearly metaphysical questions and answers..or immaterial questions and answers...you must at least demonstrate that that there is at least one thing in either set. Empiricism and physics have satisfied this very basic necessity. The agnostic atheist position is...explicitly, a position derived from empiricism and physics. If you wish to contend that some acceptance of metaphysics and immaterialism are "like that" in any menaingful way...then you are tacitly admitting that the two things are misnomers for regular old physics...and empiricism.
It has never ceased to amaze me how people fail to realize how incredibly high stakes this practiced avoidance of any responsibility of demonstration or means of demonstraton is. In the absence of any clear dilineation between meatphysics and physics, betrn empiricism and non-empirical whatsits,....physics and empiricism stomp the living shit out of the competition. Reducing them to non entities on their own grounds
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