| In a message dated 3/19/2001 2:47:44 PM Central Standard Time,
xod@sixgirls.org writes: Can you give me any example some somebody believing anything without It's hard to give a case, because as soon as I suggest one, you will come up with a plausible story about the evidence I must have had. The proof that there must be some such beliefs is a proof of just that "there are....", with not indications of what these beliefs might be (the usual candidates are things like "I am experiencing a yellow patch in my visual field," but these have along history of not working as needed. They are meant to be simple reports of experience, where no experience lies behind or explains or... the one reported.) The alternate view (why I said, "if taken literally"), is that, in any discussion of an epistemological sort, some beliefs are to be taken as established for the present discussion (justification for them is not to be asked for) and these can then be used to justify the items at issue. (These established items may become the questioned ones in anotehr discussion, however). This is known as "repairing the ship of beliefs while sailing on the experiential sea" -- and several things much worse. |