On 7/2/2014 10:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 01 Jul 2014, at 21:16, meekerdb wrote:
On 7/1/2014 9:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
But you don't have to prove something doesn't exist to reasonably fail to believe
that it does. I don't have proof that there is no teapot orbiting Jupiter, but that
doesn't make me epitemologically irresponsible to assert I don't believe there is one.
Careful as "I don't believe there is a teapot" is different from "I believe there is
no teapot".
Personally, I don't believe that there is teapot orbiting Jupiter, but why would I
believe that there is no teapot? I have no real evidences for that too. I have only a
speculation extrapolated from my limited knowledge of teapot and Jupiter.
I might *bet* that there is no teapot, but then I can easily conceive losing the bet,
by the usual "bad luck".
How you would bet and at what odds is the real measure of belief. I think you believe
there is no teapot.
I think that the presence of such teapot is highly implausible. But I can't be
sure.
Then doesn't this illustrate the difference between belief and your logical
mode []p.
But the god notion of the neoplatonist makes sense with comp, and it allows us to study
canonical number theology (G*, Z*, X*, G1*,Z1*, X1*)
I prefer to use "God" for reality (or semantics, truth conditions), because if I use
"reality", I have to first explain that science has not yet decide if reality is
material and immaterial.
And science /has/ decided whether "God" is material or immaterial??
To study the mind body problem, it is preferable to not start from a theology (like
*assuming* in the theory that "there is a physical universe").
How that any different than starting from "arithmetic and a UD" exist?
Brent
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
--- Lily Tomlin
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