If God Ever Stopped Intervening In Nature....

Yup. No. I'm denying the possibility that you can know it absolutely. Yup. If it does exist, you can't know what it is, so it might as well not exist. You'll take both. There's no contradiction. Everything should be doubted.

You couldn't have picked a worse example. I often don't know what day it is. I'm fairly certain that I'm reading them. Who wrote them is less certain. No.

It's defined as true. It's trivially true. Perception has everything to do with what we think is true. What we do - i.e. "reality" - is based on what we perceive as true, not on what "is" true.

Good for you. That's a start. I'm not here to convince you of anything.I have explained why there is no contradiction: until evidence of Bigfoot is shown I will say there is no Bigfoot; until evidence of absolute truth is shown I will say there is no absolute truth. There remains a possibility that Bigfoot exists and a possibility that absolute truth exists.

An atom with one proton is called "hydrogen". That's its name. It's no more an absolute truth than your screen name is. Always? Until forever is over, how can we know about always? Sure there's a connection but not an absolute one-to-one relationship.

Being nearly convinced is as close as you should get.

Of course. As I've said, there is always a possibility that I am wrong or that you are wrong or that anybody else is wrong. That's exactly why I say there is no absolute truth. If you can come up with an example of an absolute truth where there is absolutely no chance of you being wrong, by all means present it. I'm not trying to convince you. Somebody else reading this might understand it a little better but I don't think you will. You're too absolutely convinced that you're absolutely right.

The law of non-contradiction is trivial. It revolves around the definition of "not" - like 2 is defined as the sum of 1 plus 1.Give us an actual practical real-world example of "Absolute Truth". What does "sub objective" mean? Do you mean "subjective"? There are many things that are neither objectively true nor objectively false, like the length of a two-by-four. That's why the law of non-contradiction isn't very useful.

I always use a hammer to start a wood screw. It's an old carpenter's trick. Theology is not science.As I said, the "law of non-contradiction" is trivial. "A" and "not A" can not both be true at the same time because "not A" is defined as the opposite of A. There's no profound truth involved, only definition.If you have any examples of "absolute truth" that don't depend on trivial definitions, by all means roll them out.

Doubt helps us weed out the bad ideas. It makes us more sure of our conclusions, not less. As I've mentioned, most things don't have a simple either/or, true/false dichotomy. Science can determine the length of a two-by-four or the distance to a star quite nicely without reference to the law of non-contradiction.So, do you have any examples of absolute truth besides the law of non-contradiction?

You love chasing your tail, don't you? You should try EvolutionFairyTale. They love that kind of argument over there.Doubt doesn't mean never making a decision. It means never being over-sure of your decisions. At some point you have to decide whether your decision is working. IF absolute truth was in effect, it wouldn't make any difference whether we acknowledged it or not. However, you have not established yet that there is such a thing as "absolute truth" beyond trivial definitions such as "black is black and white is white". it may be "absolutely" true that black can not be white but is that a useful truth?

The God of the Bible can't seem to make up His own mind about that. He's always saying He's there for you but when it comes time to move the furniture He's out of town.As Billy Graham put it, "God always answers prayer. Sometimes the answer is 'no'."I can do that too: I promise you a million dollars. (The cheque is in the mail.)

No it isn't. Doubting everything continues after we make a decision. Asking yourself if the decision was a good one is doubt. Exactly. Something is "true" only if it works in the given situation. It might not work in another situation, so it is "false" in that situation. I don't expect anything from you. That's not a case of black is white; it's a case of black being mistaken for white.That's why we should doubt everything. Does the can labeled White really contain white paint? I doubt it. If I didn't, I'd just stick a brush in it and slap it on the wall without checking. So show us some examples of "absolute truth" that don't depend on the Law of Non-contradiction.

You may be missing the subtlety but there's no contradiction. I say you're chasing your tail because your reasoning is circular. Everything you say is based on the assumption of absolute truth. I've already explained why it isn't. Let me try again:When we form a hypothesis about anything, we automatically doubt that it's correct. That's why we call it a hypothesis instead of The Truth. When a hypothesis passes our testing, we become more confident that it approaches "truth". However, we are always testing our hypotheses. We are never completely sure that our theories are The Truth. We always doubt their perfection.People like you, who believe in Absolute Truth, are wrong so often because you don't doubt your conclusions enough.So can you, once and for all, give us any examples of "absolute truth" that are not trivial? I doubt it.

I've told you before, if I mean absolutely, I'll say absolutely. That's not how science and critical thinking work. When we have tested a hypothesis with all available evidence we look for more evidence. Scientists try to falsify their own hypothesies. (If they don't do it themselves, somebody else will do it for them.) That's exactly what I'm saying; they didn't doubt their conclusions enough. How so? Everything we know about reality is based on imperfect hypotheses. How could we get perfect knowledge? You have it backwards. You should doubt that all you see is all that exists. That's the problem. I keep asking you for examples of absolute truth and you keep ducking the question. I can't prove you're wrong until you say something.