On Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 4:00:15 AM UTC-5, telmo wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 6, 2019, at 22:00, cloud...@gmail.com <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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. 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.
