At 09:25 PM 09/23/2000, you wrote:
>
>Chris:
> >The primary rule of rational belief is:
> > Accept all, but *only*, those ideas for which you
> > have rationally adequate *cognitive* validation.
> >However, most people include as a major premise in their epistemology
> >the following rule:
> > If something *appears* true,
> >then it *is* true.
>
>Bertvan;
>Other people say, "If it appears true, it is probably an illusion."
>Hi Chris,
>You are a materialist, and proud of it. Nothing wrong with that. There is
>room for all sorts of people in this world, and we need a few materialists to
>keep us honest. I don't want to ridicule your "cognitive validation", but
>it appears to me like mental contortions you perform in order to avoid
>acknowledging things that appears obvious to many other people. Free will,
>for instance, which in order to be defined as free would be non determinant.
>You have faith that life consists of nothing but a complex physical machine.
>You have faith that the universe is completely comprehensible to your
>"cognitive validation". You are convinced that life, the Big Bang and
>everything else, consists of nothing which might not eventually be found in a
>complex machine.
Chris
Every statement from the first instance of "You have faith" above is false.
For one thing, I reject faith *categorically*. It is no better in science
than it is in anything else. Apparently, you missed the point of my post
entirely.
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