Baggini on Hume (IV)
Julian’s 4th piece on Hume is up on the Guardian website. Still no defence of his claim that:
The most pressing and telling critiques of religion not only cannot, but should not, attempt to deliver any fatal blows…
Julian’s 4th piece on Hume is up on the Guardian website. Still no defence of his claim that:
The most pressing and telling critiques of religion not only cannot, but should not, attempt to deliver any fatal blows…
According to Julian’s twitter: “Reading Hume: Beliefs form an interconnected whole. That’s why there are no knock-down arguments against religion.”I think I’d need to see the evidence for the first part of this argument – why do beliefs form an interconnected whole? And how does this suggest there are no knock-down arguments against religion? Does this not pre-suppose that atheism is a belief?
Emma – that sounds like an argument that knock down arguments against anything are impossible.I wonder if it’s supposed to be a knock-down argument?!
Well blow me over…
The interconnectedness bit sounds like a reference to e.g. the Quine-Duhem thesis. Check this out:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duhem-Quine_thesis