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Silent3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-13-07 10:22 AM
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31. The problem is a poorly developed epistemology...
...and (I'm generalizing here, not necessarily addressing the specifics of what you may specifically claim to "know") there's way too much confidence in things like belief in souls and spirits and gods and afterlives when there's nothing at all beyond a mere feeling as validation, and no testable consequences one way or the other about such beliefs.

You say "the fallibility percentage is low"... measured how? Measured against what? How do you measure the likelihood that your (this, again, is a generalized "you" I'm talking about) belief in an afterlife has a high probability of being correct? Is it something like "My intuition about when to carry an umbrella or when two people are going to get along well works well, so my intuition about an afterlife should be pretty dependable too"?

Now if your question is "what's the problem?" in the sense of "what the hell does it matter to you what I think I know?" then, well... I guess that's not really much of a problem for me at all. You can "know" deep down in your heart that you're the Queen of England, and unless you're going to start demanding that I address you "your highness" I guess it's no skin off my teeth. But I'll also still feel quite at liberty to express my doubts about what you think you "know".
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