RE: No reason justifies disbelief.
March 22, 2019 at 8:54 pm
(This post was last modified: March 22, 2019 at 8:55 pm by LadyForCamus.)
(March 22, 2019 at 7:55 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(March 22, 2019 at 10:26 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: How do you determine which propositions are and are not empirically demonstrable? Is there a separate category of "real" that is, at the same time as real as a tree, or the ocean, or my house, but possesses some mysterious distinction that renders it undetectable? As I mentioned to you many times now, logical arguments for god rely on assumptions about the observable universe. I thought we couldn't use observable data to draw conclusions about god?
I'll answer that question. Mind. Mind is real, and possesses some mysterious distinction that renders it undetectable.
Reality. Reality, by definition is real, and possesses some mysterious distinction that renders it undetectable.
Truth. Truth is real, also by definition, and possesses some mysterious distinction that renders it undetectable.
Right, wrong, good and evil-- in fact, almost all the words we use to describe our experience of life-- all these things must be experienced subjectively, and cannot really be said to be observed objectively, at least in the communal sense that shareable scientific observations are called objective.
All the questions that you've ever considered philosophically-- they all matter, they are all about real parts of experience, and none of them is an expression of objective observation. Literally 100% of anything you think you know about reality, even that determined through so-called objective observation, has been done through the agency of mind. All of it: looking through telescopes and microscopes, listening to science professors, reading text books. It's all subjective experience, categorized, organized, systematized, but experience nonetheless.
It's one thing to choose the blue pill. But to hide the red pill under a cushion of semantics because those semantics make better cell phones and sharper kitchen knives is, at least in my opinion, a sin against intellect.
If there is truly no way to detect these things (and I’m not so sure about that), how on earth could we ever know that they’re real?
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
