What is your firmest belief?

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creativesoul
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Re: What is your firmest belief?

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Beliefs cannot be proven 'scientifically'?

What sort of nonsense is that? How else do we verify/falsify what we believe will be the case under certain conditions?
Philosophy Explorer
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Re: What is your firmest belief?

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creativesoul wrote:Beliefs cannot be proven 'scientifically'?

What sort of nonsense is that? How else do we verify/falsify what we believe will be the case under certain conditions?
You don't have to prove anything to yourself when it comes to your beliefs.

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creativesoul
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Re: What is your firmest belief?

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Philosophy Explorer wrote:
creativesoul wrote:Beliefs cannot be proven 'scientifically'?

What sort of nonsense is that? How else do we verify/falsify what we believe will be the case under certain conditions?
You don't have to prove anything to yourself when it comes to your beliefs.

PhilX
It doesn't follow that beliefs cannot be scientifically proven.
Blaggard
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Re: What is your firmest belief?

Post by Blaggard »

Arising_uk wrote:Is that a firm belief or more irony?
No. Belief and knowing are individual, I believe only in nothing, I know what I know, and that has evidence.
creativesoul wrote:
Philosophy Explorer wrote:
creativesoul wrote:Beliefs cannot be proven 'scientifically'?

What sort of nonsense is that? How else do we verify/falsify what we believe will be the case under certain conditions?
You don't have to prove anything to yourself when it comes to your beliefs.

PhilX
It doesn't follow that beliefs cannot be scientifically proven.
That is the basis of science, proving hypotheses. They can but I think what he meant was a belief alone in and of itself cannot be proven.
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