WolfpackN64 said:
JWeinCom said:
Yeah... that's special pleading. You can't say everything needs to have a cause, and then create a class of things that don't. You'd also have to justify that something can exist outside the universe and time, and I'm not sure how that can be done, or if it is even a sensical statement. The only experience of existence we have is temporal and spatial. I don't know what existing absent of time and space means.
I'm probably not grounded in philosophy well enough to really debate this. To my knowledge there is no universally accepted definition of knowledge, as they are all flawed. But I would argue that to claim one knows something would require justification of some sort.
Back to the example I gave, let's hypothetically say your favorite color is blue. Did I know that when I originally said it?
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Depends, if you truly would posses psychic powers that are always spot on then you have a reliable process of gaining knowledge. If you merely guessed it and claimed it was because you have psychic powers, then you did not have a reliable process and you gained a true belief based on luck. A true believe alone is not enough for knowledge however.
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Then, I'm not sure of the distinction you were making before. It seems that you are saying that I do need some sort of justification.
