Post by FilmFlaneur on Sept 13, 2019 15:50:13 GMT
No answer here.
FF: Are you here referring to the speaking in tongues (glossolalia)? Or just the very widely observed and familiar phenomenon of someone in a bi-lingual family (or a immigrant one) speaking two languages fluently?
No answer here either. I understand the Archbishop of Canterbury speaks in tongues, presumably since he is full of the holy spirit, everyday. But to everyone else it would be gibberish.
A quaint expression from ancient Rome is, "One witness is no witness." Your view is rather more extreme, "The fox does not exist until a crowd sees it," is known as the "mentally retarded" logic. When you recover your mental health
I only recently had cause to remind you that I have a badly autistic brother and such language is particularly offensive. I tell you once again in the hope you can remain civilised. You reach too easily for reprehensible terms.
...you should be able to understand that existence does not depend on witnesses of any number. It is also known as the infant game "peek-a-boo" where a face or other object is hidden from an infant in order to surprise the infant that the thing hidden did not cease to exist simply by being hidden.
You confuse the point I was making which is that something can be true for one or some, without necessarily being true for everyone else, especially when encompassing statements containing abstract ideal objects. Hence it is true for Muslims that the illiterate Mohammed received dictation from the Angel Gabriel in a cave, likewise it is true for some Christians that Mary remained a virgin. This is not the same as denying an external reality, it is just that this external reality can be hypothetical and is not assumed, to the benefit of personal truth. Science of course is typically concerned with public not personal truths, but then you are never really bothered much with it anyway. Whether or not unobserved objects exist is a whole other (if related) can of philosophical worms, which is what you were talking of. I personally think they do, but to distinguish between that which might and that which does exist it is best to have positive evidence. I hope that helps.