Re: Let There Be Something

From: <daddycaylor.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:31:55 -0400

From: Quentin Anciaux <quentin.anciaux.domain.name.hidden>
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > yes it sounds like blind faith, but I can't see either any
rationnality
> > > in the
> > > faith that not everything exists... If not everything exists then
the
> > > reality
> > > is more absurd... How a justification for only a small part of
> > > possibilities
> > > (and only this one) could be found ?
> > >
> > > Quentin

Le Vendredi 28 Octobre 2005 21:24, daddycaylor.domain.name.hidden a écrit :
> > If we are leaving all rationality aside, then how can be talk about
> > relative absurdity and justification?
> >
> > Tom Caylor

From: Quentin Anciaux <quentin.anciaux.domain.name.hidden>
> Why do you think (my interpretation of my understanding of what
you're saying)
> that rationality is not just a type of belief ? I see rationality as
the
> belief that what we are experiencing could be understand/known by us,
that
> somehow here and now could be explained in acceptable term.
>
> In any cases, I just see absurdity for what is reality (don't know if
it has
> to be rational), but in the "not everything" case, I see it as much
more
> absurd. In the everything case, I'm because I must be by
definition... And
> you are too for the same reason. In the other case you just get absurd
> justification for absurdity ;D
>
> Quentin

Yes, rationality is a type of belief, but not all belief falls into the
realm of rationality,
just as not all real numbers fall into the set of rational numbers.
You said that you
don't see any rationality in either the "everything" case or the "not
everything" case.
That is, both require blind faith. This is what I (and I think we) are
calling absurd.
That's OK. It's part of everyday living. I'm not arguing that belief
in the existence
of observations is not rational. I'm just arguing that simply bringing
in the hypothetical
set of all unobservable things doesn't explain rationally in any way
(deeper than our
direct experience) the existence of observable things.
Received on Fri Oct 28 2005 - 17:37:29 PDT