This is how we protect ourselves from the following:
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"What exactly does it mean?" (What does that mean more precisely?)
"How do we know that it is so?" (How do you know that?)
1. Definitions
2. Justifications
What exactly does it mean?" (What does that mean more precisely?)
and
"How do we know that it is so?" (How do you know that?) — spirit-salamander
I generally ask, "What difference does it make?" — Tom Storm
In the end, there is a lot of information and detail that actually contributes nothing to knowledge or to a life lived, it's just clever (or not) twaddle.
A key problem with these questions is that they can't be appleid the same by each person, so the results are not just highly variable but inconsistent. — Tom Storm
Examples:
Christian: Jesus is resurrected and is our only way to salvation. Faith saves. — spirit-salamander
Kantian: Spatiotemporal structures do not exist per se and whoever lies commits a serious moral offense. — spirit-salamander
Because it sounds so interesting and worthy to learn for me"What exactly does it mean?" (What does that mean more precisely?)
Meh, I even do not want to ask. This argument looks like empty for me because I am not religious. Probably this statement sounds quite disrespectful. — javi2541997
But if you had never dealt with Christianity before? — spirit-salamander
But what do you do when someone confronts you with Christianity? — spirit-salamander
I feel it could be even worthless and a lost of time to me — javi2541997
These are the questions that in the end make us an authentically educated person:
"What exactly does it mean?" (What does that mean more precisely?)
and
"How do we know that it is so?" (How do you know that?)
These questions must become our second nature, and we must ask them constantly, tirelessly and fearlessly — spirit-salamander
And so on and so forth. — spirit-salamander
These are the questions that in the end make us an authentically educated person: — spirit-salamander
And he will become irritated when he hears others merely parroting scientific formulas. — spirit-salamander quoting Bieri
Those who know about the world are less easily fooled and can defend themselves when others want to make them the plaything of their interests, in politics or advertising, for example.
Someone who is awake to these things will keep a skeptical distance not only from esoteric literature, but also from economic forecasts, election campaign arguments, psychotherapeutic promises, and brazen presumptions of brain research. And he will become irritated when he hears others merely parroting scientific formulas."
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