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[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So in the cases where I burn corpses, and wear a condom while fucking my sister, wouldn't it be better if my reasons were to stop disease and genetic defect?

If someone asked why I was wearing a condom I could say "so she doesn't get pregnant, also, you want in on this Dad?".

[-] kopasz7@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Reasons are a human invention to help make sense of the world. If you want to base everything on logical grounds you will run into two things mainly:

  1. Limits of knowledge. Knowledge is always incomplete, as more of it opens up more questions. There are things you intuitively know are good, but can't prove why they are.

  2. Systemic limits of logical reasoning. A sufficiently powerful and consistent formal system (such as formal logic) is incomplete, it cannot prove its own correctness. (Gödel's incompleteness theorems)

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 0 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but it is better to give a valid reason, as opposed to "because", right?

[-] kopasz7@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Can you give a reason though? I guess a child haven't asked you an endless chain of whys yet. By the end of which you can't say 'why' just that 'that's how it is', you've reached the limit of knowledge.

Of course when available knowledge is preferable.

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 0 points 11 months ago

Epistemologically, "that's how it is" is too declarative for that which we don't know.

Being asked an endless series of questions for me is going to end with "I don't know".

[-] kopasz7@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago
  • Why don't you know?

  • I don't know.

  • Why don't you don't know why you don't know?

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