Rise of atheism: 100,000 Brits seek 'de-baptism'

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donathos said:

Would it be possible for a person to "absolutely believe" that sense data, logic, empricism, etc., are methods by which "absolute knowledge" could be divined?

Is it possible that empiricism, as a method, could be "revealed" to a person as a proper way to come to truth/"legitimate beliefs"/whatever-it-is-we're-calling-it-atm?

 

    As I am confined to my mind, I can say that my meaning of the word truth confesses coherency. It's just something inseparable with that meaning. Thus no, as I the meaning of empiricism and rationalism are contradictory, they could not be true "for anyone else".

    I know you are attempting to pose hypothetical situations where maybe someone doesn't 'realize' an implication and believes an explicit pronouncement anyway but... as epistemology is in my head... I can only confess what is absolute truth as I know it. Meaning that since I absolutely know empiricism and rationalism are contradictory it's not possible for me to believe that truth would contradict what I have of it when given to someone else.

    There's certainly a lot of contradictory things you could set up by just saying "well what if someone has absolute truth that..." but again that would already either go against the meaning of truth or go against the very absolute knowledge I already have.

 

    Without thinking on it too much I could pose the possibility that perhaps certain absolute truths are dependent on one another... I have no idea if that's even relevant to bring up though lol.

    Also, whatever problems you attempt to bring up by the "power of hypothesis" I think can also be applied to any person, whether using a failure of a method or not. If it's 'mere belief' (not absolute truth) that carries us, we would be in the same predicament of realizing something we believed was actually contradictory. Thus, always stuck with the possibility that any one of our beliefs were also equally unstable.