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To: betty boop; boatbums; James C. Bennett; LeGrande; getoffmylawn
How can kosta be a "'simply seeking the truth' agnostic" when he denies Truth in the first place

I don't deny the possibility of it, altough I don't think it;s very likely, but that's just my opinion based on the fatc that there are notlaking donkeys and that dead people don't get up and go abaout their day as if nothing happened—after being dead for days!

And yet kosta presents himself as singularly "all-knowing" — in his purported ignorance (i.e., lack of ability to prove anything)

No, I just admit that I don't know something, which is more than some people can do. They must know, or at least pretend to know THE Truth, but they can't prove it!

Now, it seems to me that claiming ignorance and not being able to prove something is more logical than claiming to KNOW something and not being able to prove it.

I'm sorry; but such a method makes no sense to me whatsoever

I know, what make sense to you, apparently, is to imagine something and then proceed to "prove" that it exists by means of "vertical transcendence".

3,494 posted on 06/17/2011 3:58:46 PM PDT by kosta50
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To: kosta50; Alamo-Girl; xzins; metmom; boatbums; Cronos; caww; James C. Bennett; LeGrande; ...
...what make[s] sense to you, apparently, is to imagine something and then proceed to "prove" that it exists by means of "vertical transcendence".

The "vertical line" has nothing to do with proof. It has everything to do with insight into questions of meaning and value.

"Proof" belongs to the mathematicians/logicians, working within the set rules of their discipline.

Meaning and value ever transcend the reach of mathematical methods. Unless you want to emulate Pythagoras, so to see mathematics as the key to understanding the transcendent underpinnings of reality.

Bu you don't look like a Pythagorean to me. Or a logician, for that matter.

So, what's your excuse for bad behavior?

3,497 posted on 06/17/2011 4:48:23 PM PDT by betty boop (We are led to believe a lie when we see with, and not through, the eye. — William Blake)
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