| Jay520 said: Interesting. But still, based off what you're sayong, it seems like you're saying we are born with the ability to form philosophical beliefs. But we don't actually form the philosophical beliefs until we learn them sometime after birth. Which means we still aren't born with any philosophical beliefs. |
Ok, let's say that we are not born with a philosophy as in "a set of specific beliefs about phenomena", because at birth we dont see or care about the sun or the thunderstorms, but we might still be born with an ingrained philosophical scaffolding/method as in "in doubt, it's less dangerous to give intentional meaning to the observed world phenomena". At birth, we're already scared by the sudden loud noise of the thunder, because it's safer to assume that sudden loud noises are associated with dangers, and the most dangerous phenomena are conscious predators. Basically all children go through a magical thinking and animistic phase, and the same is true for many adults.
What I'm trying to say is that while logically it's true that the default position is that of non existence of unproven entia, and that we should apply Occam's razor, antropologically and biologically our default method of knowledge might not be logical at all, but intuitively - and of course deceptively - skewed toward animism. Which is, itself, a philosophical belief. Semantics aside, I'm sure you understand what I meant :)
