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Question 6: What's Wrong With Astral Explanations?
Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To Posted by Harvey on December 3, 2004 20:36:28 UTC |
1. If the premises of a demonstration are scientifically known, then they must be demonstrated. 2. The premises from which each premise are demonstrated must be scientifically known. 3. Either this process continues forever, creating an infinite regress of premises, or it comes to a stop at some point. 4. If it continues forever, then there are no first premises from which the subsequent ones are demonstrated, and so nothing is demonstrated. 5. On the other hand, if it comes to a stop at some point, then the premises at which it comes to a stop are undemonstrated and therefore not scientifically known; consequently, neither are any of the others deduced from them. 6. Therefore, nothing can be demonstrated. A second group accepted the agnostics' view that scientific knowledge comes only from demonstration but rejected their conclusion by rejecting the dilemma. Instead, they maintained: Demonstration "in a circle" is possible, so that it is possible for all premises also to be conclusions and therefore demonstrated.
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