Three rules of epistemology that should be taught at school: 1. Knowledge does not come from authority, but always from evidence, and evidence is very hard to get. The only tools to get evidence (including what it actually supports) are reason and scientific inquiry.
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No necessity to accept what cannot be founded. Nietzsche from the same starting point gave up on truth and reason. That is where your position tends and there is no coming back from that.
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Like almost all western thought, Nietzsche's starting point was the need to disprove God, not the recognition that the claim had no support and was thus meaningless. He did not eliminate his need for what could not exist, fell victim to nihilism and became a romantic poet.
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