Message from @Enryse

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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

2019-12-02 03:22:11 UTC  

works of the Vienna circle?

2019-12-02 03:22:54 UTC  

Logical empiricism is a collective definition set by the works of many authors who were memebers of a group called the Vienna circle

2019-12-02 03:24:13 UTC  

you are right, maybe there is no empirical way to prove it, but if you want to make it irrefutable, then it has to be proved in the abstract like maths