On 14 Jul 2014, at 17:25, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
2014-07-14 17:13 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be>:
On 14 Jul 2014, at 12:53, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
2014-07-14 12:09 GMT+02:00 Samiya Illias <samiyaill...@gmail.com>:
Why do you need to see God to believe in God?
Why should you believe if you can know ? If you can't, why should
you believe instead of not believing or go eating an hamburger ?
Seeing might make you know *that* you see, but it does not entail
that you know *what* you see, as you might be dreaming or
hallucinating.
That wasn't what I was implying... I see not point to "believe" or
not "believe"... Why *shoud* I believe anyway ?
Just to clear things up, I use the common part of all "analytical
definition of belief theory and knowledge theory", and in particular
(knowing p) -> (believing p).
If you know that there is milk in the fridge, you believe that there
is milk in the fridge.
The key difference is that the reciprocal is false. If you believe
there is milk in the fridge , you can still "not know it".
Bruno
In general you believe something, not because you see it, but
because it fits well with your background knowledge. I can't see the
set {0, 1, 2, ...}, nor really define it, yet I hardly doubt that it
makes sense, as it explains a lot of other things in which I already
tend to believe (like the non existence of a bigger prime, or the
existence of universal numbers, the real numbers, etc.).
Bruno
Quentin
On 14-Jul-2014, at 2:14 am, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
On 7/13/2014 3:47 AM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote:
Sure: "Do you believe in a theist god?"
I'd like to.
So we can keep using the word "theology" and keep some academic
departments that have no subject.
This would also include political science, arts, gender studies,
french literature. Are you willing to go that far, and make what
doesn't build bridges or bake bread, something to be learned as a
podcast? Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander. Dump them
all. Right?
I can point to art, people with genders, and french literature.
I've run a political campaign. But I've never seen a god.
Brent
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