Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 09, 2018 10:49 am
The empirical example is faulty, as it must be kept in the context of empirical nature of reality, a 50x50x50 rock of 1000 pounds does not fall unless unless it is rolled off of a hill (in which case people can survive mudslides and cave ins of mines) or dropped from a building. Considering no-one builds a building with that much rock (except with the pyramids) and concrete blocks that big are rarely poured, no empirical test has proven what happens considering no constant framework of the rock repeatedly dropped on the head of a man occurs.
We know through logic that the man will be killed, but this is based on absolute conditions necessitating a causal structure where no variables can be left out; hence the incident already happened. However as a causal argument, where the incident exists not just without any interfering variables but in itself is the variable in the respect that it happened before, we are left with causality as an absolute occurrence with the framework of interpetation being the variable.
If truth as constant, exists as causal, then the framework itself is a probabilistic variable and science is empirical experiments are inherently random. Hence the falling rock killing the man, as a causal argument, is left to a probabilistic framework as to whether the rock could be dropped on the man to begin with.
As to the dropping of the rock or falling from the plane, if I hit an object with x amount of force and survive does it matter considering people have survived both cave in and falling from planes?
Your point is moot.
You still have not answer my questions?
- Whatever you argue you have not answer my question,
Would you allow a 1000-tons 50x50x50 feet cube of rock be dropped directly on you standing on hard ground?
or
Would you jump from an airplane without a parachute from 30,000 feet?
Note I qualified "...
be dropped directly on you standing on hard ground"
Answer the above questions and don't eel around.
My point is this;
I agree empirical knowledge cannot be absolutely certain and independent of the human conditions.
Any normal person with common sense would have answer 'No'.
What is critical with empirical knowledge is, generally it enable predictions that are most likely to be true and thus could ensure a greater possibility of survival for humans.
On the other hand the idea of God or Absolute is based on faith [no proofs nor reason] and has directly been responsible for hundreds of million killed in the name of theism.
Note this;
Muslim historian Firishta [full name Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah, born in 1560 and died in 1620], the author of the Tarikh-i Firishta and the Gulshan-i Ibrahim, was the first to give an idea to the medieval bloodbath that was India during Muslim rule, when he declared that over
400 million Hindus got slaughtered during Muslim invasion and occupation of India. Survivors got enslaved and castrated. India’s population is said to have been around 600 million at the time of Muslim invasion. By the mid 1500’s the Hindu population was 200 million.
https://blog.sami-aldeeb.com/2018/03/18 ... n-history/
The Muslims conquest of India stretch over 1000+ years.
Even if we discount the above by 50% the number is still horrendous.
All the above terrible evil is based on a lie, i.e. a transcendental illusion of the brain/mind which has no actuality.
I have argued the idea of God or Absolute arise from terrible psychological impulses within the brain/mind to soothe an inherent existential crisis.
The terrible psychological impulses that compel one to theism can also be responsible for theists committing terrible evil and violent acts.
If you don't make any reservations for theism, you are indirectly implicit to all the terrible evil and violent acts committed by evil prone theists.
Now you have not provide recourse to my statement, if God is beyond existence and this is an inherent element within the definition of God, but proof is limited to existence as a framework of existence with the framework itself being existence (so that existence and framework are inseperable), then the definition of God is beyond proof where any proof as inseparable framework-existence dualism necessitates the nature of proof being proof of God in the respect:
1) Proof is a framework-existence, with this framework-existence occurring as the axiom (self-evidence).
2) The axiom is dually subjective and objective, hence all proof contains a subjective nature which has no form or function since it is not defined and objectivity having both form and function as it is defined.
3) Proof has a dually subjective and objective nature, hence proof is a without definition due to its subjective nature, and acts as a defined continuum due to the objective definition continuing through the subjective state.
If you push God beyond 'existence' i.e. is or being, then such an entity is an ungrounded FAKE thing. a non-existing thing.
I have argued 'existence' is not a predicate.
'Existence' is merely "is" which is a copula that connect a subject/object with a predicate.
Can you see how stupid it is ignore the term 'existence' as in
and merely state 'God' without any predicates.
Proof is a continuum, further reflecting a definition of God, give me proof of a finite phenomenon.
Yes proof is a continuum of degree of truths.
As for your idea of God you have to provided any reliable proofs at all.
give me proof of a finite phenomenon
of what finite phenomenon??
Gravity, energy, lightning, a rock?
Note I have already proven to you the reliability and utility of the existence of a 50x50x50 1000 tonnes rock in the above.