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I disagree with this. Intuition is powerful evolved trait in humans, and often times has valuable information. Many believes furthermore, can only be evidenced

I disagree with this. Intuition is powerful evolved trait in humans, and often times has valuable information. Many believes furthermore, can only be evidenced by intuition. Logic in western countries has really dominated the culture for a long time now, and their are disastrous effects I think on the west because of it. You need logic and intuition to be whole, and you need beliefs based in facts and in feeling, not just one. I also have to say, that their are some things that believing in without evidence makes your life significantly better. Believing in a meaning of life even though there is no evidence at all to support it is one example, and I don't know how anyone would function without that belief.

sullyj3 8y ago
Plenty of people function very well without believing in a notion of objective meaningfulness.
- maceurt 8y ago
  No they don't. I have met a large amount of people. Even the nihilists believe in some sort of meaning. Furthermore, it is literally impossible to function without a believe in something meaningful, which can not be backed up by evidence given we have no facts to evidence that any action, animal, thing, matters at all or has any meaning. Just waking up the morning and brushing your teeth is the acknowledgment that your teeth are meaningful and that your health is meaningful. Even if you are purely hedonistic you acknowledge that your pain and pleasure is meaningful. If you are a functioning human you believe that there is meaning, and that is a belief that can not be backed up by any sort of conclusive evidence.
  - kruczek 8y ago
    Sure they do. The examples you gave are all for subjective meaningfulness - my teeth, my health, my pain and pleasure are all very meaningful to me, but at the same time I know they are meaningless in the grand scheme of things and I'm fine with that.

sullyj3 8y ago

Plenty of people function very well without believing in a notion of objective meaningfulness.

maceurt 8y ago
No they don't. I have met a large amount of people. Even the nihilists believe in some sort of meaning. Furthermore, it is literally impossible to function without a believe in something meaningful, which can not be backed up by evidence given we have no facts to evidence that any action, animal, thing, matters at all or has any meaning. Just waking up the morning and brushing your teeth is the acknowledgment that your teeth are meaningful and that your health is meaningful. Even if you are purely hedonistic you acknowledge that your pain and pleasure is meaningful. If you are a functioning human you believe that there is meaning, and that is a belief that can not be backed up by any sort of conclusive evidence.
- kruczek 8y ago
  Sure they do. The examples you gave are all for subjective meaningfulness - my teeth, my health, my pain and pleasure are all very meaningful to me, but at the same time I know they are meaningless in the grand scheme of things and I'm fine with that.