Speakpigeon
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- Rationality (i.e. facts + logic), Scepticism (not just about God but also everything beyond my subjective experience)
Inaccurate. There are fundamental beliefs--such as our senses are not lying to us--that in turn allow us to infer that there is in fact a consistent objective reality that we all subjectively experience.
Saying, "all the evidence you have is entirely a part of your mind" in no way contradicts this. All sentient beings must first hold one, primary, fundamental belief (senses are not lying). After that, ALL OTHER BELIEFS, can be (and are) conditionally held beliefs, which are of a different category of beliefs.
It didn't. Einstein had Newton's theories to analyze and build upon and deconstruct and new evidence that Newton did not have to inform his own theory. It wasn't like Einstein came up with his own theory on a different planet.
Still, I will guess you think evidence is something outside your head, for all to see.
Don't guess, ask. Guessing almost always leads to tiresome strawmen.
If so, how come your brain knows this sort of evidence since it's inside your head.
Oh ffs.
All we will ever have is inference derived from our experiences (experiences that only "exist" inside our brains). This is a completely trivial fact of no real importance in light of utility and the 108 billion case studies that have walked this planet and literally every single one of the countless quadrillions of things that bombard us every nano-second that make up this universe.
Can we "prove" they exist to a 100% certainty? No, due exclusively to the fact that we are biologically limited to inference derived from our experiences (experiences that only "exist" inside our brains). So the fuck what? We evidently don't need to prove anything exists externally to a 100% certainty to nevertheless act as if it does.
This condition is unchanging and cannot ever be overcome, except through inference. This fact has been well established for thousands of years now.
Put down the bong and move beyond freshman year.
At the time of Newton, people believed Newton's theory described gravitation and then Einstein published his General Relativity and scientists just switched their belief from Newton's theory of gravitation to Einstein's General Relativity.
Scientists are looking for a new theory to replace both General Relativity and Quantum physics. It's all beliefs.
And of course, that there should be different categories of beliefs doesn't make the slightest difference to what I said.
And it doesn't make any difference to what DrZoidberg said:
Beliefs are metaphysical.
Please to read you again in the future if ever you wake up and find some argument to offer.
EB