[ExI] Belief in maths (was mind body dualism)

[Stefano Vaj]

2010/7/7 darren shawn greer <dgreer_68 at hotmail.com>

>  >Lack of evidence is a perfectly fine reason to not think something is
> so.  If it also has logical inconsistency problems and/or has no explanatory
> theory that is sufficiently sound then that is more reason to disbelief it.<
>
>
> It is such an important discussion, for secular humanists and religious
> humanists are constantly having this argument. "Absence of evidence is not
> evidence of absence" and "It most certainly is!"
>
>
Indeed most posthumanists could not care less instead of the "evidence of
non-existence". The very concept of the monotheistic God, e.g., is simply
not palatable, irrespective of whether it be "true" or not, and whatever
"true" might mean in the first place.


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Stefano Vaj
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