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Now you're just repeating definitions. I'll ask you this, why would any one give a damn about "anthropogenic climate change" if they did not have some theory in

Now you're just repeating definitions. I'll ask you this, why would any one give a damn about "anthropogenic climate change" if they did not have some theory in their heads about "the final destiny of humankind"? Cause I hope they do have a theory that connects to their personal values, otherwise they are just following blindly. PS. did you just make up "factual belief"? I mean it is a tautology on many levels. But let's take it as qualified belief. Isn't that the root of religion? It's okay, we humans need to believe in something

amanaplanacanal 6y ago
I have no idea about “the final destiny of humankind”, but I’m pretty sure anthropogenic climate change is a real phenomena.
dragonwriter 6y ago
> I'll ask you this, why would any one give a damn about "anthropogenic climate change" if they did not have some theory in their heads about "the final destiny of humankind"? Because they have some concern about the quality of life people experience in the future, independent of any concept of the final destiny of humankind. > Cause I hope they do have a theory that connects to their personal values, otherwise they are just following blindly I'm not sure what your point is, unless you are unable to separate the idea of having values from eschatological theory. While certainly these can (and often are) ties together in religion, values can exist without any eschatology. > did you just make up "factual belief"? No. > I mean it is a tautology on many levels. It can't be a tautology because it's not a proposition, much less one that is true by definition. You might mean to say it's redundant, but it's not that. A factual belief is a belief on a question of fact, as opposed, e.g., to a question of values.