As I've already explained, I was asking you to actually prove 1 + 1 = 2.
"They didn’t throw up their hands and say “We can’t know.”"
Saying "we can't know" to an *unknowable* question isn't throwing up your hands. It's being honest and rational. That's all I'm trying to get across.
Certainly many people have made up answers, so what? *By definition* there is no way to know their answers to an unknowable question are correct.
And I have done that.
Saying "we can't know" to an *unknowable* question isn't throwing up your hands. It's being honest and rational. That's all I'm trying to get across.
And how does one determine something is unknowable without trying? Those "made up" answers are nonetheless answers to the question posed. And "by definition" those "unknowable" things are called beliefs. Our Declaration of Independence includes some of those beliefs. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...."