Your criticism of me only works if I am correct. — Bartricks
How do we really know anything? — Bartricks
But how does anyone know anything? — Bartricks
Yes, I am sure you do. And that makes you a what? — Bartricks
It depends. Some things are known logically; they just seem self-evident, and any attempted questioning of them presupposes them. Other things are known by observation. Encyclopedias are full of "facts" which are conventional formulations of what is taken to be the store of human knowledge.There is obviously a distinction between belief and knowledge, but then on examination there are many things humans count as knowledge which would better be characterized as belief. — Janus
It's a good lesson in economics for sure. Economy is merely mass psychology in disguise. — Benj96
Jolly good. Now apply that to the bible. And then acknowledge that your case for thinking that 'day' in Genesis refers to something other than what everyone else means by the term is really incredibly stupid. — Bartricks
The writer of Genesis employed the term 'day'. If I say 'day' you interpret me to mean a 24 hour period or thereabouts. That is the reasonable interpretation of the term.
Now, if you want you can insist that every single word in Genesis - hell, every single word anywhere - means something different. But that'd be unbelievably stupid and unjustified, yes? — Bartricks
nt, and omnibenevolent.
Now, what are you disagreeing with? Do you think I don't ,in fact, mean that by the term?
Er, I do. That's what I mean by the term. I'm an expert - the world's leading expert - on what I mean by the term 'God'. And that's what I mean. — Bartricks
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