HamiltonBrae t1_jcdohzh wrote on March 16, 2023 at 2:04 AM

Reply to comment by zms11235 in No empirical experiment can prove or disprove the existence of free will without accounting for the inadvertent biases surrounding both the experiment and the concept of free will. by IAI_Admin

All Ive been talking about is how beliefs are supported by evidence and I think thats how most people think. They change their minds if they feel that their beliefs are no longer supported by the evidence they see.

As for non-contradiction, I don't know. It seems an obvious part of my general thought the overwhelming majority of the time but I do understand there are people with views and who have created logics that are not so strict about that. I am open to logical pluralism and/or nihilism.

zms11235 t1_jche50v wrote on March 16, 2023 at 9:04 PM

So it's okay if we contradict ourselves? We shouldn't strive to have coherent paradigms?

HamiltonBrae t1_jcni16m wrote on March 18, 2023 at 2:53 AM

well according to those logics and views there are some contradictions that are acceptable. im not saying that arbitrary contradictory sentences make sense and i dont even know too much about those views but im open to the idea that logic can be done in different ways.

even so, i dont think the idea of non-contradiction is enough to pick out truth because truth depends on the premises and if these are blurry or underdetermined or context dependent then its not straightforward.