Pragmatic vs Rational Beliefs

[Michelle (Michelle Ols)]

@Faizal_Ali

On Euthyphro

Exactly. What is the problem with that? Again, that is exactly the point. It is inconceivable, just as it is inconceivable for a Mac computer to run Windows. My position is that it is a possibility that these aspects of how we experience the world are a reflection of the properties of our mind, rather than of the world. It’s a weird thought, I agree, but I do not see how it is any less plausible than the belief that all of material reality including causation, and space-time is somehow “grounded” in some person who is immaterial, uncaused and unextended in space and time. I’ve never heard anyone even try to explain how that is supposed to work.

I’ve never heard anyone even try to explain how that is supposed to work.

Do you need to know how something works to know that it works, or that it exists?