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Originally Posted by For_England
Yes, you are taking it by faith that we live in a logical universe, where 2+2=4.
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Thats true of everything outside of Descartes famous cogito. Putting aside the most mundane sceptical arguments and focusing on a common sense philosophy, the principle of the uniformity of nature is extremely useful.
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But aren't you presupposing that there are transcendent conceptual truths in an atheistic and meaningless universe?
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An atheistic universe is no more or less meaningful than a theistic one.
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Isn't that a contradiction. Plato saw that, as I'm sure you're aware, and rejected naturalistic materialism as a result.
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Not really... Just because Plato holds something doesn't make it true - he was right about some things and wrong about some things. It is the actual argument that is important, not the person who holds it.
30-12-2007, 05:23 PM
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