Misrta t1_jdrbrna wrote on March 26, 2023 at 4:08 PM

In one way, life makes me a little bit sad because of the philosophical nature of truth and reasoning. All truth and reasoning, whether you like it or not or admit it or not, is based on assumptions that may be true but cannot be proven true outside your blind acceptance. That's just how it is. And since we are known to be wrong about things sometimes, why should I have any faith in what I believe? Haven't you had moments where you thought you knew something but it turned out later to be false?

Miserable_Sun6756 t1_jdu69cn wrote on March 27, 2023 at 5:40 AM

Thats where the statistical probability of an event happening comes into play. just cos there is a 1 in 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 chance that the sun won't rise tomorrow doesn't mean that I am wrong to belive it will rise tomorrow with virtual certainty.

pias25 t1_jdul5kp wrote on March 27, 2023 at 9:11 AM

So then there is an absolute truth as you said. The truth of never knowing for sure if our assumptions are true...

Misrta t1_jdv85nj wrote on March 27, 2023 at 1:23 PM

I never said that. I just said that we rely on perception to decide what is true and what is not. "I know X" is an interpretation that may be right. Every claim of knowledge is an interpretation.

Misrta t1_jdvp48n wrote on March 27, 2023 at 3:24 PM

What I'm thinking of is the Münchhausen trilemma.

Gamusino2021 t1_jdumudc wrote on March 27, 2023 at 9:35 AM

Mathematical truths are absolute truths, for example, "square root of 2 cant be obtained by dividing 2 natural numbers" that is an absolute truth.

I guess apart from math truths, and the fact that you exist there arent other absolute truths. but there are other truths that even if not absolute, the evidence supporting them is overwhelming.

"why should I have any faith in what I believe?" You shouldn't have faith, you should just follow the evidence wherever it leads, and you should be aware of the evidence that is supporting the things you think are true.

"Haven't you had moments where you thought you knew something but it turned out later to be false?" happens to all of us, one very common is realizing the religion we were indoctrinated into is false, or realizing many political or historical assumptions that many people holds are wrong, also we get dissapointed from some people, all of that is totally normal.