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To: Hank Kerchief; Aquinasfan; thinktwice
There simply is no logical reason why I should trust my senses.

I like to take people like you, when I am having such discussions in person, and have them hold out their hand on a table and take my knife and hold it about 4 feet over their hand and let the knife go. I have never injured anyone because they all, without exception, suddenly find a logical reason to trust their senses. This statement is utter untruth, to put it politely.

As I have stated previously, I live in a beach community. It never ceases to amaze me how the most dysfunctional schizos patiently wait for the green light to cross the street. Even crazy people have that much logical reasoning within them.

If this statement were actually, accurately true, you wouldn't live long enough to respond on the morrow.

I'm tired of such irrationality. You couldn't think your way out of a wet paper bag.

393 posted on 02/12/2003 12:47:51 AM PST by LogicWings
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To: LogicWings
I like to take people like you, when I am having such discussions in person, and have them hold out their hand on a table and take my knife and hold it about 4 feet over their hand and let the knife go. I have never injured anyone because they all, without exception, suddenly find a logical reason to trust their senses.

log·ic    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (ljk) n.

1. The study of the principles of reasoning, especially of the structure of propositions as distinguished from their content and of method and validity in deductive reasoning.
2.
a. A system of reasoning: Aristotle's logic.
b. A mode of reasoning: By that logic, we should sell the company tomorrow.
c. The formal, guiding principles of a discipline, school, or science.
3. Valid reasoning: Your paper lacks the logic to prove your thesis.
4. The relationship between elements and between an element and the whole in a set of objects, individuals, principles, or events: There's a certain logic to the motion of rush-hour traffic.

ex·pe·ri·ence    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (k-spîr-ns) n.

1. The apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses or mind: a child's first experience of snow.
2.
a. Active participation in events or activities, leading to the accumulation of knowledge or skill: a lesson taught by experience; a carpenter with experience in roof repair.
b. The knowledge or skill so derived.
3.
a. An event or a series of events participated in or lived through.
b. The totality of such events in the past of an individual or group.

Again, materialism can provide no coherent, logical explanation for the reliability of our senses (nor the unified experience of consciousness itself for that matter).

I challenge you to logically explain how a materialist can assert with certainty that the molecules in his brain ("thoughts") correspond to an external reality.

398 posted on 02/12/2003 4:48:37 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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