The problem we encounter immediately though is that concepts are comparative by nature. Even though it is conceivable that, having acquired, say, the concept [red], you could tell something is red without comparing it to anything not red, you could not possibly acquire such a concept in the first place. — Srap Tasmaner
No property possessed by the whole universe can be knowable. Agree? — Mongrel
If you want a more direct answer than this you've got to define "luck". — VagabondSpectre
"Luck" really only make sense if you are talking about causality, in the significance of how someone exists in one position rather than another, by circumstance and themselves, such they one way rather than another (e.g. a rich person is who "lucky" to be born into wealth, person belonging to a plentiful environment, etc.). — TheWillowOfDarkness
As an atheist – do you feel lucky to have life – consciousness – love – are you thankful? If you are thankful – to what – the universe – luckiness? What? — Thinker
Do you feel a servile obligation towards the socks on your feet?
Is remarking that life is good not enough?
What's the purpose behind making a gesture of gratitude toward a thing which cannot perceive it?
It seems nonsensical... — VagabondSpectre
Lucky/thankful not really. Glad/satisfied, yes. — Terrapin Station
I don't believe in luck though. — Terrapin Station
Gratitude outside causality, that is gratitude to no-one, is meaningless. It just the nihilistic neurosis-- that world and ourselves are meaningless in themselves, such that we would have to think nothing for allowing us to exist. — TheWillowOfDarkness
Rather than "grateful," I should just be "joyful." — TheWillowOfDarkness
You religious folks always give me a cult vibe. — Terrapin Station
They don't amount to what you'd need to make your argument work — Sapientia
The question that's left is whether we do possess such a concept and possess it innately — Srap Tasmaner
Glad - satisfied sounds mild - you should be ecstatic - the benefits would be more. You should be screaming from the rooftop - I am lucky. We would all laugh at you - but - you would be happier. — Thinker
What standards of evidence will convince you? — TheMadFool
"the Reason Exception Principle--REP: For every billion facts in the universe, fifteen have no reason for occurring, although the acausality of those fifteen things necessarily remains empirically unknown to us." That's incompatible with the PSR. And listing 50 billion reasons for different things is just as much support of the REP as it is support of the PSR, because the REP claims that the vast majority of things have a reason, and doesn't claim that we do not empirically know those reasons. — Terrapin Station
Ok. Are you an atheist, theist or agnostic? — TheMadFool
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