The Black Cat Analogy

[bongbong]

56. Hi yo silver

> ike a misspelled word to declare victory cause the other person is stupid and you have proof of that.

I don't know if you know it, but discussions about subjects like philosophy and Truth don't have "victors". My post made no such claim of victory, only that the intellectual horsepower needed to discuss weighty subjects is best found in people who have mastered basic English. It's not going to stop lesser lights from talking about anything, and I would be the last to say it should, but the conclusions & reasoning expounded by those folks might likely be ones that have already been examined & found wanting by the prospective counter-party to the discussion.

> a fact in chemistry does not prove anything about the cosmos

Well, there you see we have a basic disagreement about science. Methinks very little in the way of presenting facts that are labeled "accepted 100,000% factual truth" by legions of both theoretical & applied chemists would change your opinion in this area. Thus, let's just agree to disagree about this "nature of proof" or "nature of truth" or whatever it is you are attempting to expound upon.

> can never answer the weightier questions of existence

That would depend on how you define "answer". Again, it appears one person's "answer" is not satisfactory for you since, perhaps, it wouldn't sound "mystical" or "metaphysical" enough. I don't know.

> what this is really about is those that think they can answer it because they have it all figured out

What I find marvelous are those people who think that by calling something "unknowable", that they have it all figured out.

> This world would work far better if people were not so caught up in their own view of things that they truly believe that they have the answer and the other people are just stupid

Well, there are differences between people, and the ability of people to think. I would never have a car mechanic do brain surgery on me, and I'd never have a brain surgeon repair my car. The quote about apes reading philosophy vs. apes understanding philosophy from "A Fish Called Wanda" is appropriate here (it appeared recently in another DU post)

Have a great day!