Concept tag
#doubt
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What is the “no miracles” argument for believing electrons are real?
I'm on a gap year before university and I've been reading al-Ghazālī's Deliverance from Error, where he doubts the senses and then doubts reason. After that I started wondering about things nobody can see at all. Nobody has ever seen an electron.…
Started by Fajar Nugroho4 replies117 views -
Reading group: al-Ghazālī’s Deliverance from Error, the chapters on doubt
Al-Munqidh min al-ḍalāl, usually translated Deliverance from Error, is short enough to read in an evening and deep enough to read for a lifetime. I would like to read the first part, the account of his doubt, slowly over three weeks with…
Started by Imam Bilal Hussain7 replies253 views -
Is it irrational to have no precise credence at all about something like life on Europa?
A science journalist asked me last month, for a piece about the Europa missions, what probability I would put on there being life in its ocean. I said I had no idea. She pushed: “Just a number, roughly.” I said somewhere between…
Started by Lars Eriksen5 replies235 views -
Reading group: Wittgenstein’s On Certainty, about a hundred remarks a week
On Certainty consists of notes Wittgenstein wrote in the last year and a half of his life, largely provoked by G. E. Moore's papers defending common sense against scepticism. It was published in 1969, edited by G. E. M. Anscombe and G.…
Started by Oskar Nyberg5 replies180 views