Re: dhw--Epistemological Framework (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 02:31 (5063 days ago) @ xeno6696

Now for the part about life being designed. -One part of my framework that I was not clear about--final decisions on a topic should only be made when we can rest assured that we have knowledge. -The design of life--while I am open to the possibility, it has several problems that I've enumerated before and will do again. -1. You need to be able to demonstrate the difference between designed and not designed. This has a critical corollary.
1.a: You need to be able to differentiate further between a good and bad design. -You previously mentioned a television; we have people who can attest to having built them. We have plans and knowledge of electricity, radio waves, and digital equipment if you have satellite or cable. -The only evidence we have for consciousness is that we feel we are able to make decisions. I say this weakly on purpose, as there is evidence that some people (OCD sufferers) have problems with free will. This feeling is an intuition (see my previous definitions.) -If the television analogy is the best argument you can come up with, I hand it back to you thoroughly defeated. There is NO comparison possible to man made things and life. I will close the hole here by also asserting that a possibility is not itself evidence. -I will concede that you can make this hole a "reason." But note that nowhere in my normative framework do I allow reason alone as knowledge (it violates validity) and that questions are only closed when we have knowledge... it simply isn't sufficient. -All of the arguing we have here is due to distinctions of these kinds. We mentioned before about things such as shared experiences; as these experiences are tacit to anyone not a party to--this also is not knowledge. -What we come to is the firm realization that we have two kinds of knowledge (ultimately empirical and tacit) and that at least in my case; I will not accept tacit knowledge alone as basis to make a decision.

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