William T Goodall wrote:
...
>>> A drug induced hallucination is a real experience that doesn't
>>> correspond to objectively real events.
>> William--
>>
>> As many people were trying to point out to you,
>> that's not something you can prove.
>
> You do not actually believe that.
William--
No, I think I DO believe that it is impossible to
prove that there are no "other planes of reality",
or whatever we're calling them. And who are you
to tell me what I believe?!
>> You're the one here who's claiming certain knowledge
>> of things that are unknowable.
>
> You entirely mistake my epistemology. You are the one claiming that if
> we don't know something certainly we don't know it at all yet you act
> as though you are quite satisfied with the less than perfect proof
> that reality is just what it seems and we are not brains in jars.
> Clearly we do know things quite satisfactorily well despite not
> knowing them with complete certainty.
>
> Outside of mathematics and logic 'proof' means 'beyond reasonable
> doubt' not certainty.
I sense a circularity here. I bet you're going to define "reasonable"
so it explicitly excludes belief in anything outside this world.
I maintain that it is perfectly reasonable to doubt that what you
think of as reality is all there is. (It may not be USEFUL to doubt
this, but that's a different issue.)
---David
By the way, shouldn't you be consistent, and argue that we DO
know some things, since you are trying to PROVE that there are
no other planes of reality?
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