bunny
02-19-2006, 12:02 AM
Copernicus - is the argument you were making in the "How is god immoral" thread something like the following:
Mathematical truths are built up from rational arguments as applied to simpler truths which have in turn been built up from simpler truths all the way back to axioms.
These axioms are self-evidently true (via sense experience? or correspondence to the physical world in some way?). The laws of logic are also self-evidently valid.
Therefore beliefs in mathematical truths are purely rational beliefs.
Mathematical truths are built up from rational arguments as applied to simpler truths which have in turn been built up from simpler truths all the way back to axioms.
These axioms are self-evidently true (via sense experience? or correspondence to the physical world in some way?). The laws of logic are also self-evidently valid.
Therefore beliefs in mathematical truths are purely rational beliefs.