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Re: [lojban] Can an atheist really understand religious text?



In a message dated 1/15/2002 5:13:35 PM Central Standard Time, lee@piclab.com writes:


Funny; it seemed to me that Bar-Elli's point was so trivially and
obviously wrong, that any attempt to connect it with reality or
understand it better was futile.


Connection with reality maybe, but look at his definition.  If someone actually met that definition, he would clearly be unable to understand any kind of god-talk, since his beliefs would in no way connect with the presuppositions of that talk, nor could he adapt to those assumptions without a core change, essentially ceasing to fit the definition.  This is a philosophic point, after all, so probably not very interesting, but at least it is trivially true (well, there are other epistemologies, though they are even less less plausible than the one behind this).