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26596, RE: Why do you need proof?
Posted by Nettrice, Thu Jan-27-05 03:22 PM
>>>"I think therefore I
>>>am"
>>
>>Even in this statement there is an assumption.
>
>What assumption?

Knowledge implies objective and subjective certainty. My point is that most spiritual people do not need truth because faith is enough. As I stated in another message, faith is a rational attitude towards a potential object of knowledge which arises when we are subjectively certain it is true even though we are unable to gain theoretical or objective certainty.

When Descartes states that he thinks it really is faith. He is not God and cannot create existence. Therefore, whatever he thinks is subjective certainty.

>The laws of mathematics exist
>without us here to discover them, in essence mathematics may
>be viewed upon as a divine language. So you see, not
>everything we know is subjective.

We are not God and, thus, we can only theorize what is "divine".