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Everything boils down to faith eventually, though. Even trusting the evidence of your senses is a kind of faith. So the logical error isn't an epistemological
by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago
Everything boils down to faith eventually, though. Even trusting the evidence of your senses is a kind of faith.
So the logical error isn't an epistemological error in all cases - you can see it as someone trying to minimize some distance metric they are operating on between Reality As It Is and Reality As I Know It by making a single hop to someone who, it is believed, has already done a lot of work investigating the ground claims.
- aeonik 3y agoThis was the conclusion of René Descartes and the meaning behind "I think, therefore I am". It was the only safe conclusion he could come to after a deep series of introspection. Once he got there, he systematically built up a new framework of thought and reasoning, and we got modern science and philosophy from it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito%2C_ergo_sum?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito%2C_ergo_sum?wprov=sfla1