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Does anyone believe we are living in a simulation? This morning I was unsuccessfully looking for some paperwork and thought if my brain were like a computer, all I would need to do is think about a key term of the paperwork and all those objects I had seen at some point in my life and commited to m...

get rid of the problem of proving or refuting the claim that an object exists or not, by restating the problem as proving or refuting the possibility that the object exists, which requires a definition of the object I think Mikes's view is helpful here. I have stated, as a possible definition of ne...

What degree of certainty sufficiently identifies negative phenomena? The degree of certainty that sufficiently identifies possible phenomena [i.e. phenomena that cannot be easily agreed upon, such as a higher being] could not be agreed upon. Perhaps because one view arises out of it's counter view....

What degree of certainty sufficiently identifies negative phenomena?

atheist does not mean "know god does not exist." It means that there are two possibilities -- god exists/god doesn't exist -- My issue is not with the existence or non existence of god but the necessary and sufficient conditions for such a judgement to arise. It is obvious for theists tha...

You are confusing knowing and believing. As an atheist I merely state the impossibility of knowing god exists. As a theist I state a belief in god which I cannot know Is an atheist a non-believer or a non-knower? My understanding of an atheist is someone who knows god does not exist. Is a theist a ...

One must know in order to know not, therefore one cannot know.

Knowing not cannot result in knowing, therfore one can only know.