Question:
Is there a logical flaw with these two questions?
Breath on the Wind
2009-09-28 04:14:45 UTC
Do you notice what is similar with these two questions? What standard should we use in judging another perspective. Should it be our own, the perspective we are examining or something entirely different?

unreasonable belief: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090928035113AAGwsXt
incapacity to believe: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090928040349AALniBZ
Three answers:
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2009-09-28 04:38:04 UTC
we should use the standard of being able tosee both/all sides as much as possible

and to want to know the answer,the truth, not just what we want to be the answer or the truth



i dont see a flaw with asking questions,you get answers, thats what they are for

the only flaw is some judgment or presuming, but its so little, and its put in question form, not as if it were fact, so its not flawed to me at all











Additional



most people in soceity dont use facts, they use their best judgment,

but those who do use facts, have to interprate those facts, so yes, there is always room for errors and always has to be room for a person to asses it using their individual abilites, so leadingtowards possibly differing 'facts' or findings that soemone else who did the same thing



its not wrong to mix them at all, its a necesity, first we cant learn anythign without beign able to make sence of thing sin our OWN mind first and foremost, that means using our own understanding,so it wil always be tainted by 'us'



and second the facts never change, they always are the same, we may find differing facts, or varients of facts, but they are ultimately, on the same level, or the same conclusion

that what science is all about, not how you get there, but that the answer is solid and 'true'

or

as true as we can get it to be for what we are, flawed human beings with a need to learn, to answer questions and an ability to deduct but only if we also deduct using our own understanding of any fact presented
wohaz in wonderland
2009-09-28 05:02:07 UTC
belief is a term thrown around to indicate that its just an opinion and therfeore both sides have equal standing.



we all have beliefs, beliefs are opinions, opinions are based of logical obseravations of the owner of the beliefs.



now, unreasonable, not haveing reason, which is logly based.

so..if your belief is not based on logic, then its not based in reson,

so the belief is unreasonable.



to the second.

atheists also have beliefs, they just refuse to gain new beliefs without new evidence.



see, the term belief is the flaw in these questions.

belief itself does not gain or lose credibility by itself, it gains or loses it by its merit and basis on known and/or provable fact.
Thimmappa M.S.
2009-09-28 10:13:51 UTC
Belief is independent of reason.belief does not depend on capacity, it is the very nature of being.


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