I know, but you're not trying to convince me - I'm trying to convince you :-)
Of course I'm trying to convince you - not that God exists, but that I'm justified in believing that he does, which is not the same proposition.
Neither of those are foundational problems to me - I think solipsism and belief in zombies are both meaningless stances.
"A is not a foundational belief" does not follow from "not-A is meaningless"; in fact, I think there may be a good argument that "not-A is meaningless" is practically a sufficient condition for "A is a foundational belief", at least for certain values of A.
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Date: 2009-01-09 04:16 pm (UTC)Of course I'm trying to convince you - not that God exists, but that I'm justified in believing that he does, which is not the same proposition.
Neither of those are foundational problems to me - I think solipsism and belief in zombies are both meaningless stances.
"A is not a foundational belief" does not follow from "not-A is meaningless"; in fact, I think there may be a good argument that "not-A is meaningless" is practically a sufficient condition for "A is a foundational belief", at least for certain values of A.