(March 2, 2020 at 3:04 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(March 2, 2020 at 2:34 pm)Rahn127 Wrote: I'll help you out a little bit.
The answer is NO, you cannot define what is inside the box until you can demonstrate that something is in fact inside the box.
You must demonstrate existence before you can assign a definition.
What closed box are you talking about?
I'm talking about the world we live in. We are in it. It moves and changes and we can see it.
Nope, that is mere reductionist scientism. It counts not. All that matters is your philoso-babble interpretation of it. YOURS. Anyone else's is irrelevant.
Thus you seem to think you can sneak in your god.
Now other god botherers sneak the god-of-the-gaps into science. And they fail every time they attempt such. And so they should.
However, you seem to have firmly planted you gap du jour upon philosophy, because you are fully aware that philosophy can neither be demonstrated true nor false.
And there is your problem. You can change the landscape as much as you wish. You can hurl philosophical terms as much as you like. It doesn't matter. You believe in a spooky man in the sky and are struggling to find some justification for such absurditiy.
Since science will not provide that, you resort to philosobabble.