Message from @Enryse

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2019-12-02 03:00:04 UTC  

That's what you are saying?

2019-12-02 03:00:33 UTC  

Right, and this thing can't be "scientifically proven" because it can't be measured with material tools

2019-12-02 03:00:48 UTC  

well, we cannot perceive many things that exists in the "physical" world

2019-12-02 03:02:05 UTC  

there are things that can only be perceived with some extra tool and others that are (for now) out of reach

2019-12-02 03:02:08 UTC  

All things that are imperceptible of the material are still in relation to the material. My thoughts, for example, are a product of my brain. My consciousness and my soul are immaterial aspects, though

2019-12-02 03:02:37 UTC  

then, how do you know you have a soul?

2019-12-02 03:02:56 UTC  

You may one day be able to read my mind but you will never prove how gracious or sinister my soul is

2019-12-02 03:03:05 UTC  

It's an immaterial concept

2019-12-02 03:03:23 UTC  

yeah, but how do you know that the soul exists?

2019-12-02 03:03:37 UTC  

The same way you know God exists

2019-12-02 03:03:52 UTC  

I can't exist in the material without it

2019-12-02 03:04:31 UTC  

@Enryse so can we as human beings know things which we cannot prove scientifical? If yes, then metaphysics is a useful field of philosophy.

2019-12-02 03:05:02 UTC  

The question of the existence of God is a metaphysical question, of course

2019-12-02 03:06:01 UTC  

The Greek philosophers pondered these same questions long before any influence from the Abrahamic religion

2019-12-02 03:06:31 UTC  

but, i don't see why you wouldn't exits without god, if god wasn't created, what makes you thing that the first living creature was?

2019-12-02 03:07:09 UTC  

Because creature means something that is created

2019-12-02 03:08:43 UTC  

And how could you know something you cannot perceive? (I mean, yes, someone could tell you, and you could believe by faith, but that can apply to everything)

2019-12-02 03:09:05 UTC  

ok what about "living beings"?

2019-12-02 03:10:07 UTC  

Because not all knowledge comes from the senses

2019-12-02 03:10:20 UTC  

Yes, the Greek's pondered the same question, and many conclude that they cannot know

2019-12-02 03:10:32 UTC  

I know, math and logic comes for default

2019-12-02 03:10:56 UTC  

And the self existence knowledge

2019-12-02 03:11:07 UTC  

Right, and thus our epistemology is not dependent on our perceptions alone

2019-12-02 03:11:53 UTC  

yeah, but how does god is part of that default knowledge?

2019-12-02 03:12:15 UTC  

following the previous argument...

2019-12-02 03:12:57 UTC  

If there can be an unmoved mover, there is no reason to thing there cannot be others

2019-12-02 03:13:24 UTC  

Not by itself, no

2019-12-02 03:13:59 UTC  

Also, infinity its impossible to know, because we could never know if something that appears infinite is actually infinite

2019-12-02 03:14:08 UTC  

But we know that numbers are infinite

2019-12-02 03:15:17 UTC  

Well, logic and maths in general are infinite, the abstract world is infinite, so we know that the infinite is logically provable, just as a god is logically provable

2019-12-02 03:15:31 UTC  

I wouldn't say it's all default knowledge. A child might understand 2+2 = 4 but pi is a complete mystery to them. The point being that they need to grow and expand their knowledge and understanding of mathematics.

2019-12-02 03:16:03 UTC  

yeah, but they could find pi with just rezoning

2019-12-02 03:16:48 UTC  

Right, but it isn't innate

2019-12-02 03:17:05 UTC  

empirical science comes from studying the world around us, formal science comes from pure reasoning

2019-12-02 03:17:50 UTC  

you don't born with the tools to know history or physics, but you born with the tools to know maths

2019-12-02 03:18:36 UTC  

let a human in a room isolated from the world and the only science he could develop to the maximum state are formal science

2019-12-02 03:19:07 UTC  

And metaphysics is a formal science like mathematics

2019-12-02 03:19:49 UTC  

Ah, le logical empiricism

2019-12-02 03:20:00 UTC  

May I ask what works of the Vienna circle have you read?

2019-12-02 03:20:03 UTC  

The question of the existence of God is a metaphysical one because there is not necessarily any empirical proof

2019-12-02 03:21:41 UTC  

but metaphysics, from what i know, are not axioms like maths and logic, there are different beliefs towards metaphysics, but not with maths and logic