RE: virus: Belief and Knowledge (was: The truth about faith)

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Mon, 11 Aug 97 07:38:34 -0400

>Exercise: although you are an ever-questioning skeptic, what axioms,
>presuppositions, unconscious beliefs do you have that you NEVER question?
>
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>> And I would choose truth. It's more real.
>
>^^^ hint hint hint ^^^

I get this kind of response quite a bit, the assumption that I even have
axioms about the truth.

Well, I do hold the axiom that the truth is demonstrable, in whatever
form. And that the supernatural is not. With the result that I do not
hold the supernatural to be truth.

I do not for one second consider C.S. Lewis a 'questioning' kind of guy.
Rather the opposite. He is the archetypical apologist.

I usually don't question death or taxes either.

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