RE: No reason justifies disbelief.
March 26, 2019 at 4:14 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2019 at 4:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 26, 2019 at 4:05 pm)bennyboy Wrote:Sure, if you say so.(March 26, 2019 at 11:14 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: The claim that you know that there are questions that some empirical method can't answer isn't an agnostic claim.I'm agnostic about some things because I know enough about others. I know that a singularity is impenetrable in certain ways and why, and so I'm sure that we can't know what's really going on inside the Big Bang singularity.
Quote:It does...just not what you thought it did, same as empiricism from before.Quote:I guess we'll just have to add the term agnostic to the growing list of things you have consequential misconceptions of.Asked and answered. My not having a tool for answering some questions doesn't stand as evidence that a tool someone else claims is actually up to the job. It's almost like. . . the word "agnostic" means something, eh?
Why would an empirical object be immune to empirical investigation, what method do you use, and what is the answer?
Quote:Is that a yes or a no? Does the rule of hasn't = can't hold here or not?Quote:Does this direct experience of mine justify an assertion that you can't answer that question? Not only that you don't know, but can't know what it feels like? That you can only talk around it?It doesn't really matter if you take that position, because in describing my experiences, I'm not claiming to be using a framework of objective, shareable observations. If you really question my knowledge, I can shrug my shoulders, realize that you haven't had that experience, and walk away.
I posit that you can't know what it feels like to hold a cup of hot chocolate, because you haven't answered that question and can only talk around it. True or false?
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