This. Took a while to build that foundation, and a lot of contemplation in deciding what needed to be there… but once built, it’s solid, and not given to reorganization on whim. That’s not because I’m closed-minded or anything, it’s because stuff like a belief that the evidence provided by your own senses is valid really is kind of fundamental to believing anything else, at all. Not believing in that implies not believing in a whole host of other things, and develops into some really strange philosophies. As a philosophical position, this is called ‘empiricism’, and it’s actually more fundamental than belief in only the physical world (ie: disbelief in spiritual phenomena, ‘materialism’), because you need a thing that says what evidence is considered valid before you have a thing that says ‘and based on this evidence, I conclude’.
This. Took a while to build that foundation, and a lot of contemplation in deciding what needed to be there… but once built, it’s solid, and not given to reorganization on whim. That’s not because I’m closed-minded or anything, it’s because stuff like a belief that the evidence provided by your own senses is valid really is kind of fundamental to believing anything else, at all. Not believing in that implies not believing in a whole host of other things, and develops into some really strange philosophies. As a philosophical position, this is called ‘empiricism’, and it’s actually more fundamental than belief in only the physical world (ie: disbelief in spiritual phenomena, ‘materialism’), because you need a thing that says what evidence is considered valid before you have a thing that says ‘and based on this evidence, I conclude’.