RE: God, Santa, and The Tooth Fairy
December 17, 2021 at 1:49 pm
(This post was last modified: December 17, 2021 at 5:02 pm by LadyForCamus.)
(December 16, 2021 at 9:40 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(December 16, 2021 at 7:44 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: But only if we share the same physical reality. A universe with different physical laws may necessitate different tools to describe and understand it. Is there a way to show that can’t be a possibility?
Quite the contrary! Absurdism is always a possibility. It is what I consider one of the main existential stances, just as one can believe that we live in a rationally ordered universe. No one knows for sure...maybe there is a deep order always beyond our ken or maybe its all just random chance. Those are faith based positions.
So think about what the skeptical position above is advocated for in order remain against the theistic position. They are suggesting that logic can be illogical because physics does not entail a rational order. And they have the conceit to present this as the rational position. To me it sounds like cleverly disguised absurdism.
I’m not seeing it that way at all. If we were able to describe a different set of physical laws in a different universe, that would mean those physical laws and that universe are just as intelligible and rationally grounded as our own; simply different. Our logic makes sense for this universe because its physical laws are such that they are. I don’t know of any reason to think that classical logic transcends the physical. I’m not even sure that’s a coherent concept. What is a descriptive tool without some *thing* to describe?
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.