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Reason
Jan 30, 2010 7:36:43 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Jan 30, 2010 7:36:43 GMT 10
Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it
William Chillingworth (Died this day 1644)
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Reason
Mar 29, 2013 9:20:39 GMT 10
Post by Solomon on Mar 29, 2013 9:20:39 GMT 10
The Enlightenment may have indeed outlived its usefulness, but it is only through Reason's protocols that one can make a coherent case for Reason's limitations. O ye of little skepticism, kindly acknowledge your debt to that idiom on which you so glibly heap scorn
James Morrow
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Reason
Mar 29, 2013 9:23:40 GMT 10
Post by Solomon on Mar 29, 2013 9:23:40 GMT 10
If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason-responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I certainly grant the existence of the phenomenon of faith; what I want to see is a reasoned ground for taking faith seriously as a way of getting to the truth, and not, say, just as a way people comfort themselves and each other (a worthy function that I do take seriously). But you must not expect me to go along with your defence of faith as a path to truth if at any point you appeal to the very dispensation you are supposedly trying to justify. Before you appeal to faith when reason has you backed into a corner, think about whether you really want to abandon reason when reason is on your side.
Daniel Clement "Dan" Dennett III (Born this day 1942)
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Reason
Mar 29, 2013 9:27:13 GMT 10
Post by Solomon on Mar 29, 2013 9:27:13 GMT 10
I moved the preceeding two posts by Smithee as the topic already had this thread.
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Reason
Mar 29, 2013 9:30:28 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Mar 29, 2013 9:30:28 GMT 10
So many people prefer the ‘bunk’ to the ‘debunk’Harry PriceBritish psychic researcher (Died this day 1948)
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Reason
Mar 29, 2013 18:36:41 GMT 10
Post by Smithee on Mar 29, 2013 18:36:41 GMT 10
I moved the preceeding two posts by Smithee as the topic already had this thread. Thank you.
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Reason
Mar 29, 2013 18:43:58 GMT 10
Post by Smithee on Mar 29, 2013 18:43:58 GMT 10
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be "too clever by half". The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters Sir John Major (Born this day 1943) Not only in Britain.
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Reason
Mar 31, 2013 16:06:24 GMT 10
Post by Smithee on Mar 31, 2013 16:06:24 GMT 10
Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities. John Fowles (Born this day, England 1926)
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Reason
Apr 1, 2013 9:02:57 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Apr 1, 2013 9:02:57 GMT 10
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought
Milan Kundera (Born this day 1929)
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