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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Replying to @Plinz
Nietzsche would recognize that your own position is nihilistic. You want to believe in knowledge and you want to believe in facts but all you can manage is one opinion among many.
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Replying to @Gregg_E_Miller
Yes, which is basically all the opinions weighted with the probability of them being true. I take it that you believe that you have found a way to pick one of them and now try to justify an item of faith?
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Replying to @Plinz
I'm simply saying: "you can't get there from here." I'm not justifying faith here. I'm pointing out the difficulty of legislating a set of rational rules that you can then build your world on.
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Replying to @Gregg_E_Miller
Could you please provide some evidential support for your argument so we can evaluate the probability that you are right? :)
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Replying to @Plinz
I haven't made any argument. I am challenging your three absolute propositions to see if you have an epistemic right to them. I think you are taking a pragmatic position, am I right?
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Replying to @Gregg_E_Miller
Without an argument, you don't have a case, I think. And I cannot take a pragmatic position, without having derived it (personal issue, but seems philosophically consistent too)
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Replying to @Plinz
How did you derive the position that you can have knowledge without authority? I guess what I'm asking is why did you choose the more optimistic realist position rather than the more pessimistic anti-realist position?
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Replying to @Gregg_E_Miller
I actually didn't, I am reality agnostic. Reality is best explained as a bit that my mind uses to tag those representations that it considers to be the best predictors, but I do not have ontological faith in the existence of an external reality.
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Replying to @Plinz
OK, I guess I jumped from your use of facts and evidence to acquire knowledge as an indicator that you were a philosophical realist. You aren't concerned whether those facts exist only in your mind or in some external world. Am I on track?
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It is easy to figure out that one cannot know that, but apriori derive models of the possible universes in which it could be one or the other, conditional on that one's mind supports the requirements of supporting reason well enough.
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