RE: No reason justifies disbelief.
March 23, 2019 at 6:36 am
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2019 at 7:04 am by Belacqua.)
(March 23, 2019 at 6:28 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: "knowledge thorough revelation" is NOT reliable.
Please demonstrate this through empirical means.
Quote:The brain is an extremely unreliable tool.
Much of what people think is real is the brains interpretation of what it thinks its experiencing which can be confused and miss led by many many things.
That's right. But an illusion perceived by an unreliable brain isn't revelation. It's an illusion.
Your argument here only works if you assume, a priori, that all revelations are illusion.
Quote:Even Dickens knew this "there is more of gravy than of grave about you!".
What do you mean by "even Dickens"? Do you think he's generally unreliable?
Quote:So everything that is experienced only through the brain needs backing up by other means.
So in order to be trustworthy anything must be detectable by something other than the human mind.
Revelation is not and so is unreliable.
Good. So you are also saying that the word "reliable" means "testable through scientific methods."
So if our metaphysical commitments tell us that the word "reliable" always and only means "available to science," then we are not open-minded to other methods than science.
By the way: look! You attempted to use logic alone to prove something about the world! Mrs. Camus will reject this out of hand.