Beliefs are accepted propositions. I believe you means that I accept what you’re saying is true. All knowledge is belief, but all beliefs are not knowledge. Beliefs do not require justification, but knowledge does. For […]
Author: David Dempsey
Knowledge, Belief, and Fantasy
What is knowledge? It’s an awareness that something your head corresponds to reality. Of course, there may be justification needed to verify that what’s in your head does actually correspond with reality. Otherwise there is […]
Justifying the Justification
In our exploration of counterfactuals, we explored regrets and the principle of explosion, and how I think they could effect human behavior. In this post, we’re going to explore knowledge, and how its requirement for […]
Something’s Gotta Give
Kids have tantrums, awful displays of rebellion. As parents, we are forced to endure them. But why do kids resist in such a predictable fashion? As a kid, let’s say you want to watch TV. […]
Deja Vu Revisited
Not long ago, I presented a theory about how deja vu could prove that a personal and omniscient god exists. This theory does a little more, though. If two-thirds of people experience deja vu, that […]
Refuting Allah
Alternate title: How great does your God love? In Christianity, we are introduced to the unconditional love of God, who desires that all come to salvation [I Timothy 2:4]. In Islam, Allah orders the death […]
Want and Fear
What I think is strange is the relationship between want and fear. A fear is a realized negative future reality. A want is very similar. It’s realizing a positive future reality, and preferring it to […]
Refuting Eric
I was recently introduced to Eric in a r/DebateAChristian thread. Here’s how Eric is defined [on https://ericthegodeatingpenguin.com/]: God can’t exist because of Eric The God-Eating Magic Penguin. Since Eric is God-Eating by definition, he has no choice but […]
Counterfactuals and the Principle of Explosion
A counterfactual is a fact that follows a false hypothetical. For instance, if I never was born, I would never have owned a truck. The argument follows, but is based on a false premise. It’s […]
Multiple Personality Theory
Let’s say that your life hinges on three events. These three major events shape your entire life. But what if your view of each event changed periodically. Whether it was good or bad. In hindsight, […]