I haven't thought long and hard about this, but I think that I would go with Russell in saying that while empiricism might not be self-contradictory...
Yes. That's why I often define faith as 'commitment'. When Christians say that they have 'faith in Christ', oftentimes they seem to mean that they...
I'm an American so I'm sort of out-of-line telling Britons how to run their country. But seeing as how Britons never tire of telling Americans like...
Moving back to the original issue: Perhaps one could argue that faith arises whenever somebody makes knowledge claims. And science, along with the...
My thinking on all this is a work in progress and it changes by the day. But right now, I'm inclined to think that this is a distinction without a...
Yes, I agree. I'd go so far as to suggest that all of our knowledge claims ultimately reduce to faith: to committment to assumptions about which we...
If we are just talking about belief in God, I guess that we could call such a person 'Somebody who has no opinion on the matter'. (I would not call...
Yes. I think that it is. I'd say (paraphrasing the Oxford Guide to Philosophy) that 'belief' is a mental state, with a proposition as its object, in...
How MR's questions are answered probably depends on whether we are talking about propositional knowledge or 'knowing how'. My reply below will...
I have questions about "discernment of right vs wrong". Is there really anything objective to be discerned? If so, how is it discerned? It isn't...
I just tried it and I don't think that I "see" or "hear" the numbers at all. But 'hearing' is a lot closer than 'seeing' and maybe I should have...
One thing that this thread has purposely and by design failed to discuss is the fact that the fighting in Gaza and the undoubted suffering that...
I agree. I like Carl Sagan, though I sense that some of the things he said were rather intuitive. (His famous "billions and billions" as the music...
Right. Reliability isn't the same thing as infallibility. Reliability doesn't require that one be correct in every instance. It just means a...
Perhaps part of the problem in this thread is that that everyone is trying to understand what Tegmark is about through W4U's interpretation of him....
Yes. Assuming that we are talking about organized movement skeptics, and not skeptics in the broader sense, I think that generally speaking that's...
My guess is that W4U is arguing (perhaps without realizing it) for a currently popular idea in the philosophy of science called Structural Realism....
Yes, this particular disagreement has a long history on this board. I remember battling with Kittamaru and Bells years ago over this very point. They...
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