Don't you already know what you know is a fact and what you don't?
The facts are what i know to be, what i dont know i have no faith in..
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Whoever
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Wed 28 Jan, 2009 05:14 am
@MITech,
Is it possible to live without faith? If the sun rises 50 million mornings in a row isn't the faith that it will rise tomorrow just induction? Some acts of faith seem no more than common sense to me.
Is it possible to live without faith? If the sun rises 50 million mornings in a row isn't the faith that it will rise tomorrow just induction? Some acts of faith seem no more than common sense to me.
Majority of faith is as you say is just taking certain things for granted..
Is it true that above the hallowed doors of physics at the Neil Bohr Institute University of Copenhagen these words are engraved: 'Ye Must Have Faith'? If not, they should be!
= MJA
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xris
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Fri 30 Jan, 2009 01:27 pm
@avatar6v7,
avatar6v7 wrote:
Of course, any belief be it in a god, in a certain political theory, or in empircal scince, is based on certain assumptions.
And what are they and should they be questioned? our ancestors never took it for granted the sun would return they lived in constant fear it would not rise..
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Kolbe
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Fri 30 Jan, 2009 04:53 pm
@MITech,
Perhaps that's because they believed it to be pulled by a man in a chariot, and man, as they would take for granted from experience of themselves, is unreliable?
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Whoever
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Fri 30 Jan, 2009 05:07 pm
@MITech,
Perhaps we can't be sure what our ancestors thought.
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Kolbe
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Fri 30 Jan, 2009 05:59 pm
@MITech,
Or the myths and legends recorded from those times could tell us?
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Whoever
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Sat 31 Jan, 2009 05:24 am
@MITech,
To some extent perhaps. But how do we know how our ancestors interpreted these myths and legends. Perhaps in a few thousand years our descendents will dismiss us as idiots for believing in Father Christmas, not realising we didn't.
