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Is there such a thing as completely objective truth?
Heidegger's phenomenology is knocked sideways by Derrida's deconstruction, putting paid to a certain truth. In Heidegger's phenomenology beings come from Being and truth is the truth of Being. The ...
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Is there such a thing as completely objective truth?
One way around your conundrum is to consider true to be a label invented by humans that is applied conventionally in certain circumstances. For example, in mathematics the label true is applied to ...
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Is there such a thing as completely objective truth?
Is there such a thing as completely objective truth?
Yes, there definitely is!
At least:
"You asked that question on this site". (At some "period in time"...)
("As long (...
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Is there such a thing as completely objective truth?
Objectivity arises , changes and vanishes.
For example - consider the objective truth , food or fuel is always required for life or a machine to function properly. The truth is objective as it is true ...
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Is there such a thing as completely objective truth?
I think objective absolutely exists. Whether we understand things or not, they will go on existing, they will be governed by laws of the universe.
One might say, well how do you know the laws of ...
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Can disputes over what is reasonable or unreasonable to believe be resolved objectively?
The clear answer is no. Any disagreement between two people relies upon assumptions that cannot be proven. Perhaps one can use the number of these assumptions as a standard for deciding between two ...
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
Pragmatically, the burden of proof is on who is trying to convince other folks to think differently than they do. It depends only on who is the proselitist.
A (a)theist who is not trying to convince ...
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
No. The burden of proof lies with the proposer. Onus probandi incumbit ei qui dicit, non ei qui negat. I define atheism as the lack of belief in God. It is not the proposition that God does not exist.
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Can disputes over what is reasonable or unreasonable to believe be resolved objectively?
The sort of debate that you depict would descend into chaos unless there were an arbiter accepted by both sides. Any reasonable arbiter would employ all of the principles and tools of reason advanced ...
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Can disputes over what is reasonable or unreasonable to believe be resolved objectively?
Reasonability is a characteristic of Mind.Mind is a phenomena. It arises , changes and vanishes. Mind can suffer from psychological diseases. People can go mad for various reasons like vanity , ...
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
If the properties and definition of god include observable effects in the empirical universe, then the burden of proof should be on the person advancing the explanation that opposes the science and ...
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Can disputes over what is reasonable or unreasonable to believe be resolved objectively?
It depends on what you mean by 'objectively'. If objectivity is taken to be the consensus of subjective agents, for instance, by subscribing to a convention, then there is, let's call it, a first-...
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
When there's a prevailing belief, the burden of proof falls on those who claim otherwise. For instance, when a geocentric universe was the common belief (it just seemed obvious to most people, and ...
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
I strongly disagree with the accepted answer. Proving the non-existence of something is in most cases impossible. In science, most of the time we need to prove the existence.
That's what the Russel's ...
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
On a pure logical point of view, it is as impossible to provide a definitive proof that no god can exist as it is to provide one that one god exist. Any attempt will fail miserabily because of the ...
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
For me this is very simply answered: the question is invalid. To ask it at all is based on fallacious understanding of the issues involved.
I prefer the famous definition of "atheism" often ...
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
Practically in informal circumstances the burden of prove lies with whoever needs to convert the doubter. If you are an atheist trying to persuade a Catholic their belief is misguided, the burden of ...
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
Replace "atheist" with "A" and "theist" with "B." Run through the question and see if it makes sense to give the burden of proof to "A" or "B.&...
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
The answer is not going to be "the theist has the burden of proof" nor "the atheist has the burden of proof".
Before you can answer "Who has the burden of proof?", you ...
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
Because of the fact that the God concept has strong connotations for many people it's easy to get "trapped" into a polarized way of thinking.
Firstly let me start with a pitfall in the ...
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
There is no such thing as a burden of proof. Hence, the question is unfounded. And if there is, it would be like any other ought thought of in history.
The same way that there is no way to objectively ...
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
Unless one is a fideist, one is essentially bound to onus probandi. From WP:
[T]he burden of proof lies with the one who speaks, not the one who negates... is the obligation on a party in a dispute ...
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
I think gnasher729 and NotThatGusy make a great first point - "God" is too fuzzy a concept. Any discussion of God first needs to establish what properties we are assuming God has.
However, ...
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
Supernatural claims always carry a severe burden of proof. Since the typical theistic claim involves supernatural causes or effects, it also carries a burden of proof.
In general, skeptics carry no ...
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
I'd say the burden of proof is on the theist. The theist asserts the existence of some god. The burden of proof lies with the one making the claim.
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Do atheists bear the burden of proof in showing why/how the reasons presented by theists are unconvincing?
The basic rule of a philosophical discussion is to support one's thesis by some arguments.
History of philosophy shows that neither the theist nor the atheist have succeeded in convincing the opponent ...
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Does anything have an objective purpose?
Eyes do not have a purpose, they have a function: The function of seeing.
From the viewpoint of biology and specifically from the viewpoint of the theory of evolution the capability of seeing and the ...
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