On Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 4:00:15 AM UTC-5, telmo wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 6, 2019, at 22:00, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > > > On Monday, May 6, 2019 at 3:44:39 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > On 5/5/2019 11:26 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > 1. The world is rational. > 2. Human reason can, in principle, be developed more highly (through > certain techniques). > *3. There are systematic methods for the solution of all problems (also > art, etc.).* > *4. There are other worlds and rational beings of a different and higher > kind.* > 5. The world in which we live is not the only one in which we shall live > or have lived. > 6. There is incomparably more knowable a priori than is currently known. > 7. The development of human thought since the Renaissance is thoroughly > intelligible (durchaus einsichtige). > 8. Reason in mankind will be developed in every direction. > 9. Formal rights comprise a real science. > *10. Materialism is false.* > *11. The higher beings are connected to the others by analogy, not by > composition.* > 12. Concepts have an objective existence. > 13. There is a scientific (exact) philosophy and theology, which deals > with concepts of the highest abstractness; and this is also most highly > fruitful for science. > 14. Religions are, for the most part, bad– but religion is not. > > > Reads like a lot of assertion based on wishful thinking. > > Brent > > > (Emphasis mine) > > Jason > > > > On the 14 theses above, I would assert their anti-thesis. > > > So you believe, for example, that 1 + 1 = 2 is subjective? (concepts do > not have an objective existence)? >
It's just a heuristic rule. It worked just now on my little Casio calculator on my desk. I have no absolute God-is-in-His-Heaven faith in what it will do tomorrow. > > Or that religions are, for the most part, good, -- but religion is not? > Absurdism [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism ] is the only "true" religion. > Or that human reason cannot be developed more highly? You were born at the > pinnacle or rationality? > How did Trump get elected? > > Or that we know most things there are to know? You were born at the > pinnacle of knowledge? Seems like an awful coincidence... > I just wish I had the knowledge of that new champion on Jeopardy! > > Or that the world is irrational? This one should lead you to reject > science right now and stop wasting time with debating... > I can only do my best dissolving people's delusions (which have their origin in *Platonism*). If they still have them, that's not my problem. > Telmo. > > > @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/cd9aa4d8-15b0-4fc1-b964-8fd5b9bf4e09%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
