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To: Hank Kerchief

You missed the point: that the only things we can know are true our those we experience without use of the senses (i.e. our own consciousnness and the existence of God). All other “knowledge”, including scientific knowledge, is ultimately based upon faith (e.g. that our senses aren’t lying tous).


646 posted on 06/12/2009 10:47:03 AM PDT by B-Chan
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To: B-Chan

“You missed the point ...”

Oh, no, I got the point alright. Proofs only concern concepts, which are all that can be proved, or need to be. It’s by means of concepts that we identify the entities and events of perception that are knowledge, not the perceptions or experiences themselves.

Your mind is all twisted up with Hume’s and Kant’s anti-reason philosophy, and you’ve never been able to get beyond it. So sad.

An where do you get the notion that perception is unreliable? Right from Hume and Kant.

Before and even while the Wright Brother were flying, there were scientists and college professors, with ideas very like yours, arguing that heavier than air flight was impossible. The Wright brother PROVED it is not impossible.

So our knowledge that heavier than air human flight is possible is a matter of faith? You are still not sure planes can fly?

Isn’t that a kind of insanity?

Hank


650 posted on 06/12/2009 11:05:51 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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