> In my mind faith has the burden of proof.
Faith, by definition, has no need of proof.
> >Socrates figured out that you can't have knowledge without a bit of
> >faith- that if you keep asking "How do you know that?" you get to the
> > point
> > where you say "I just know"- a belief not grounded in empirical evidence.
> >
>
> I believe that we will reach a point that this question may be answered
> by existing evidence. It would be like a circle; "a" is true because of
> "b", and "b" is true because of "a". I would like to hear some opinions
> about the implications of this situation. I am not quite sure what to
> think about this concept.
This is the meme version of an auto-catalytic set! See Stuart Kauffman's _At
Home in the Universe_ to know what I'm talking about by that term.
> --
> John Aten
> jwa@inx.net
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> "Truth demands to be declared even if it is ugly
> and unethical" -F. Nietzsche
>
> "Of each thing ask, what is it? What is its nature?
> What is it of itself" -Marcus Aurelius
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"Blessed are those who have no expectations, for they will never be disappointed." Kautiliya Shakhamuni Sidhartha Gautama Buddha
"Things are the way they are because they got that way."
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