Your beliefs are WRONG... here's why

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[davidmireles]

I agree Steven. These video very much needed to stop all these apologists with no philosophical humility and often appreciation for the various theories of epistemology. You do everyone a great service breaking down the challenging concepts around knowing a thing. Great video 🎉

[njhoepner]

Great quick runthrough on epistomology. It's amazing how hard it is to have truly exhaustive "knowledge" of anything, there is always more to learn...which is the fun of life!

[stephengalanis]

As a phil major, stuff like this is a breath of fresh air. Not bad air.

[nagranoth_]

the thing with creationist apologists is, they are deeply dishonest. With this foundation for knowledge stuff they aren't honestly pointing out that the whole concept is tricky. They want to pretend that THEY have knowledge, when really they have faith and pretend that counts as knowledge... (even though people only talk about faith when they can't support their claims with evidence). Probably the weakest foundation possible because in the end it boils down to "I want that to be true".

[rosesimonne]

Thank you, this is very informative, and I for one didn't even pick up on the graphics, I was simply trying to follow the thread of thought. Please create more content like this.

[kariannecrysler]

Thank you Stephen. I definitely need an education in the appropriate understanding & terminology’s of epistemology and philosophy on the whole.🤘💗

[TheFoxholeLife]

Loved how Rationality Rules is focusing on topics that go deeper.

[PopePhred]

Thanks, for your crash course! As always, keep up the great work!

[sigmaoctantis]

"There is a tree in my yard."
Yes, but what do you mean by 'tree' and what do you mean by 'yard'. - Jordan Peterson

[SeekingTruth]

Actually I love all you content! I learned so much through your videos within the last months.
Aaaand I like your beautiful accent as well. ;)
It is always a pleasure to watch and listen to you!
All the best from Germany 🇩🇪 😊

[zedmann]

I see these epistemological theories as tools that compliment each other, and it seems that most people subconsciously use them simultaneously as a hurdles to justifying beliefs.

[stuartdavidson]

Foundationalism sounds reasonable - No, wait - yeah good points there Stephen
Coherentism sounds reasonable - No, wait - yeah good points there Stephen
Reliabalism sounds reasonable - No, wait - yeah good points there Stephen
Evidentialism sounds reasonable - No, wait - yeah good points there Stephen

JUST PUT MY BRAIN IN A VAT ALREADY!!! :D

[AJ-iqng]

Thanks for this well spoken and understandable video

[aylina]

Love from an exmuslim woman💕 i used to be an idealist but now i‘m a materialist. This changed a lot.

[KeithCooper-Albuquerque]

Excellent video, Stephen! I look forward to more videos on this topic!

[loki]

"I know nothing." - Manuel

"I am from Barcelona."

[Robert-ycql]

Nicely done. 😊
An early attraction to science was the absolute humility exhibited by it's practitioners, of which the Einstein quote is a prime example. One simple litmus test of a good and conscientious scientist is one who never degrades or dismisses the work of their peers, but rather just allows the scientific process to show the way, ... as it inevitably always does.

[Tyrantberry]

This fermented my hypotheses, about truth and why doubt is good, more. Thank you.

[NicholasWilliams-ukxu]

You are amazingly smart, thank you. There is no where I can find disagreement.

[OceanusHelios]

When I took philiosophy in college, my Prof. (also the head of the Biology department) was trying to say God has been proven by the simple matter of, "God is the greatest thing that can be imagined, therefore god is real." I just blinked at her and laughed. It was word salad. Trying to define a diety into existence is as old as the time when people lived in caves and drew pictures of animals on the wall. They worshipped superhero animals in those days. Old men sitting around the fire, telling stories. Mothers sitting with their children, and telling stories. The stories might be inspiring. The stories might be lessons. But they were still just stories.

I have no reason to believe Blob. "Because Blob says so and these are the words and works of Blob in my story." There is nothing there. And when we are no longer here, we shall no longer be here. In 200 years, it is certain not a single human alive today will still be alive. We can know this.

To understand life, a simple analogy of that campfire is all that is necessary. It takes some energy, a spark, and some fuel to get it started. If it is not kept burning and fuel is not added, then it will eventually be extinguished. We are matter and energy beings. We can be extinguished and we see this daily. We do not come back.

I will not add, "We do not come back to this universe, " because we have no evidence there is anything else. Uncomfortable, yes.

It is not wise to live as though we will live forever. When we do, we discount the pain of grief, and life becomes trivial. When we accept mortality, life becomes precious to us. The Earth is not an infinite planet. To behave as such, we waste so much...and run out of everything all too soon.

After I die, there will no longer be a me, but just a corpse. That corpse will never come back and my mind shall be extinguished. A trillion trillion trillion years will pass, and the energy and fire of my life will spread through the universe as heat, just as the heat of my birth is now possibly 56 light years away. Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust.

Yes. This is all that there is. And I'm fine with that. I'm loving every minute of it. Thank you for traveling the galaxy with me.