[lbo-talk] Signs of the times

[Chris Doss]

Actually, this is a perfect example of my point. Solipsism is totally coherent and rational; it accounts for all the phenomenon and cannot be disproven, and it has Occam's Razor on its side. We just intuitively, irrationally, discard it because it feels wrong. Just like we intuitively, irrationally, discard the idea that the universe did not come into being an hour ago or that an event can come before a cause. It feels wrong.

--- On Sun, 9/20/09, Michael McIntyre <morbidsymptoms at gmail.com> wrote:


> From: Michael McIntyre <morbidsymptoms at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Signs of the times
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 1:36 PM
> Now there's an argument worthy of
> Christianity Today, one that quickly
> dissolves into solipsism.  See Wittgenstein, "On
> Certainty".
> 
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > We all believe things that have no rational grounds --
> there is an external world, the future will be like the
> past, every effect has a cause.
> >
> >
> > --- On Sun, 9/20/09, Michael McIntyre <morbidsymptoms at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >   Belief in a
> >> deity of any
> >> kind requires you to suspend the ordinary
> requirement of
> >> some kind of
> >> rational grounds for belief.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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