[lbo-talk] Atheism

Alexander Nekvasil a8504902 at unet.univie.ac.at
Thu Jan 29 18:45:46 PST 2004


Carrol:


> >1. The human mind can achieve perfect knowledge of
> >all that is.
> >
> >2. Humans will always discover new things.
> >
> >Only the first is false. To deny the second is in
> >fact to affirm the first. Engels's ironic treatment
> >of Duhring's claims to absolute knowledge is good on
> >this.

James Culbertson:


> Of course to absolutely Know that the first is false
> (or the 2nd is true) you'd have to have perfect
> knowledge of all that is.

It might be sufficient to prove that "perfectly knowing all that is" for humans involves a contradiction.

I say "might" because it's an indirect proof, and the validity of such has been contested from time to time, especially in regard to terms like "everything".

cheers AN



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