Nice, Richard, thanks, makes me realize that probably most of us theists are
using inference and verbal testimony.
From: "'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] A question for those who believe in God
On 11/20/2014 9:57 AM, Share Long wrote:
>
I'm not sure what turq finds so annoying about "belief." Heck, if we didn't
have beliefs, we'd have to learn everything all over every single day. For
example, when I cross the busy intersection while walking to the post office, I
believe the cars will obey the red light. I don't know 100% for sure that they
will. But I think they will based on past experience. Except past experience
also includes seeing many a dingbat run the red light! I think belief is what
we do all day long simply because we can't know anything for sure until AFTER
it has happened. d even then, our perceptions are skewed by the state of our
nervous system.
>
Probably none of us have been up in space so we could witness the curvature of
the earth first-hand. So, we take the verbal testimony of others that the earth
is spherical in shape.
There is no a priori knowledge that we are born with. We know very little when
we are born - so we must learn almost everything we know from our teachers. The
question is: what are the valid means of knowledge?
- Sense perception
- Inference.
- Verbal testimony
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