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Originally Posted by DChristopher  I don't, but not because of skepticism. I disbelieve it because of your propensity towards sarcasm. |
Who? Me?
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Originally Posted by DChristopher I believe that you don't believe that I really don't believe...OK, I'm out.
I believe lots of things. Mainly, I believe the obvious things in front of my face. If you say you are exactly 2 meters tall, I believe you. I'm even a bit naive about it.
What I *don't* believe in is absolute certainty. I'm open to the possibility that I might be wrong. |
Are you absolutely certain that absolute certainty is impossible? I, too, am open to the possibility that you might be wrong.
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Originally Posted by DChristopher In particular, I don't think there's such a thing as a self-evident, or self-justifying, or Knowledge-Giver-Justified Axiom. |
Try to refute "existence exists" without conceding that existence does exist. Try to refute the Law of Identity while you're at it.
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Originally Posted by DChristopher I take the ones that make the most sense to me... |
By what standard?
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Originally Posted by DChristopher ..but how--honestly, HOW--how can ANYONE with any shred of intellectual honesty claim that their axioms are unequivocally, irrefutably, universally true, beyond any possibility of doubt? |
Please review the definition of "axiom" above.
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Originally Posted by DChristopher I mean, I may *think* mine are true, but how the heck could I know for sure? |
Obviously,
you can't. Do not, therefore, attempt to hold the rest of humanity down to your level.
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Originally Posted by DChristopher Bnonn has scared me out of using the word 'knowledge,' but my beliefs are not arbitrary. My axioms are not arbitrary. As I've said, I try to stick to plausibility, simplicity, and beauty in my axioms. |
That anyone would allow that irrational troll to scare them out of anything gives me doubts as to the intellectual fortitude of those in fear.
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Originally Posted by DChristopher I just think that axioms are *allowed* to be arbitrary, by definition. Doesn't mean the ones I choose to believe about the universe are *arrived at* arbitrarily. |
It is not enough to cast doubt on all knowledge, you find it necessary to attack metaphysics as well? Have you no boundaries?
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Originally Posted by DChristopher And you prefer the self-affirming nature of dogma? |
You find my intellectual certainty so threatening that you label it as "dogma"?