Folks,
Following on from my modest thesis on the Agnostic, here is a further practical consequent of the thesis.
Question – Do you know that the existence of God is impossible?
Dworkin, ‘No’.
Q. - Do you know that the non existence of God is impossible?
Dworkin, ‘No’.
Q. - Do you believe that the existence of God is impossible?
Dworkin, ‘No’
Q. - Do you believe that the non existence of God is impossible?
Dworkin. ‘No’.
Q. - Do you believe that the existence of God is possible?
Dworkin, ‘Yes’
Q. - Do you believe that the non existence of God is possible?
Dworkin, ‘Yes’
From this, we see that Dworkin finds it impossible to know or believe the impossible, but impossible to know, but possible to believe that the possible is possible.
To clarify further, of course it follows from this that someone might believe that the impossible is impossible, thus leaving them with the belief (but not the knowledge) that anything and everything is possible, which is where I think that most clear thinking Agnostics will end up. There is the caveat that believing that everything and anything is possible, could include that the impossible is possible, which might mean that the possible might also be impossible, which I think clearly, is not possible.
D.
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