(February 18, 2020 at 1:08 am)Belacqua Wrote:(February 17, 2020 at 9:11 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: I just gave you a law of logic that human minds use constantly and is one of the foundations of rational thought and you told me I just made a baseless assertion. screw you pal, you either dont understand or you don't want to understand, either way it's your problem.
"human minds use constantly"
I dispute the notion that human minds use logic constantly. As I said earlier, human beings use logic inconsistently. I hold that many people hold beliefs that do not conform to the rules of logic.
People on this forum often say that logic shows the impossibility of the Christian God. An omni-benevolent God which doesn't cure childhood cancer is a logical contradiction, they say. Yet we know many people believe in such a thing.
Do you dispute that Christian beliefs may be illogical? Or do you think that because people are logical animals, they are incapable of holding illogical beliefs? Because people are logical animals, all beliefs they hold are logical?
If you think that Christian beliefs may be illogical and also held by many people, then you agree with me: human beliefs may not conform to the rules of logic.
Now your just moving the goal posts, I never said people couldn't hold illogical beliefs, you can hold a belief based on emotion. What a person cannot do is believe "A" is true and not true at the same time for the tenth fucking time!!!! Logic is used daily are you really trying to argue that human minds don't use reasoning? How do you think you form thoughts, opinions, classifications, and judgments?
