The ONLY way for the universe to exist is..

Discussion in 'Agnosticism and Atheism' started by Gravity, Apr 15, 2007.

  1. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    only is an assumption. the possibilities of existence are not limited by human ignorance. there is no objectively compelling "only". only greater and lesser probabilities.

    the only compelling certainties are much more local and limited in scope. which is not to say that they can't or don't exist. i'm not making nor embraissing that assumption either, though others have at times assumed that i was or did.

    i don't KNOW that limits HAVE TO exist. only that they often appear to in other contexts, a few of them even compellingly. but those are still OTHER contexts.

    none of which directly corrilate to universality.

    (relaxxx seams to have said something of the sort which makes the same excellent sense. we can only evaluate our self-consistency and observe what does and does not work. from these observations we can project other probabilities. but we can't always test them. and if we can't test them and test them rigorously, then we have no rational basis to feel compelled by them.)

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  2. Razorofoccam

    Razorofoccam Banned

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    Themnax

    Human igorance has nothing to do with reality.

    Probability says that reality allways has been. It seems unlikely that probabillity favours nothing. Nothing includes..no probabillity..????
    Thus probabillity theory does not apply.
    What theory demands the nonexistannce of itself?
    Thus invalidating it['s self].

    Occam
     
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