The difference between “knowing” and “believing” is that knowing something means it can be measured and quantified. Can we measure or quantify the “proof” of God? smh. I believe in God, but I KNOW that proof of God is beyond human ability.
If understood as a statement about the relationship between mind and physical ground truth, Cartesian dualism is false, both pragmatically (it leads to false predictions) and epistemologically. I don't see evidence that Cartesians are more nihilist than the rest of the population
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If you truly believe that nothing outside your own mind can be verified, then the concept of “reality” is meaningless. All concepts of morality, ethics, humanity, are reduced to subjective aspects of personal perception. The result is moral relativism, leading to nihilism.
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You seem to imply that your motivation depends on your beliefs, and your beliefs on your understanding of reality, and that reality has moral facts in it. That is quite a stretch. Do you insulate yourself from a train of thought with a "slippery slope" argument here?
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