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Originally Posted by ILG
Many scientific theories were philosophy before it they were proven. But before they were proven it was philosophy and not science.
With your reasoning, anything is provable just because you believe it. That's downright scary.
These are ideas that can make you crazy if you get into some wacky belief. How do you determine if someone's beliefs are off the deep end if you equate belief with proof?
The rest is up to the recipient of your message to what? Agree or disagree with your "justified true belief"? I believe there is an afterlife but I don't KNOW it, just as science has believed in certain philosophies before they were provable. But they were philosophies at that time and NOT science. There is a difference between BELIEF and PROOF.
Scary. Lots of people can justify their beliefs. That doesn't make it knowledge. It is still a belief.
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The bulleted points are not my philosophies. But they serve to make my point which I believe you are missing.
God gave us a free will to choose. If we choose to, we can believe the moon is made of cheese. We don't have to prove it for it to be "justified" and become something we "know". If we believe it strongly enough, we will find justification and we will accept it as knowledge that the moon is made of cheese.
This happens all the time. Thats why we have doomsday groups that stockpile food. They believe and KNOW that D-Day is coming on a certain date and they prepare for it. They can't PROVE it but for them its knowledge and they are acting on that knowledge.
I CAN INDEED answer the question and subject of this thread. I can answer for MYSELF, based on what I know and believe and accept as truth. I can't answer for anyone else, just for myself. I can share my belief, my opinion, my thoughts. But ultimately, everyone must choose for themselves. Thats been my point all along.
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