Atheism: How Certain is Certain? (Agnosticism)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Thursday, May 29, 2008, 11:55 (6021 days ago) @ Cary Cook

Contrary to Cary I don't think it is possible to be absolutely 100% cast iron certain about anything. But this doesn't mean I can't be reasonably certain for all practical purposes. This is not "epistemological nihilism" as he calls it. It is just common sense. - For all I know I could be a figment of the red King's dream, or we could all be part of a computer simulation by some superFrankenstein in a parallel universe. However until evidence of this is forthcoming it is just a sensible assumption to start from that what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG). - Aristotelian logic is a useful tool, but it depends on clear definitions of the terms and clear articulation of the steps in the arguments (such as one finds in Euclid). I would recommend Bart Kosko's book on Fuzzy Logic as a good read.