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I meant to be excluding things like that when I said "about the outside world". But regardless of how you think of statements like that, there are all sorts of
by moss 17y ago
I meant to be excluding things like that when I said "about the outside world". But regardless of how you think of statements like that, there are all sorts of others:
* The sun will come up tomorrow.
* Nobody is plotting to have me killed.
* The lamp next to my couch is on.
* Accelerating beyond light speed is impossible.
* People other than me exist.
that can't be proven logically, but that it's still perfectly reasonable to be sure of. In practice, logical proof isn't a workable standard to look for in your beliefs.
- chrischen 17y agoThe sun will come up tomorrow. We are 99.99% certain of that, so therefore it's safe to assume it's correct. And it's statistically unlikely for the sun to not come up. But when making the claim that God does not exist, that claim itself is 100% certain to be uncertain. So it's safe to assume he does not exist if no evidence has shown he does exist, but we still must acknowledge the possibility of his existence just as you must still acknowledge the possibility, however minute, that the sun will not come up tomorrow.