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Doubt is a necessary component of Faith. All I'm really saying is that we all have certain primary beliefs which we base all other beliefs on. Those primary beliefs work and are useful, but all of our proofs are based upon them and they can't be proven.Doubt is good!
But what is doubt? A method to establish if something is true or not and using the outcome to create a certainty, a base from which you can use to accomplish " something ". To create things, visible, factual, things that are now part of technology. When I look outside my window I can see many of those things, like cars, houses, and I'm using a tablet to type things, that couldn't be made if 1+1 wasn't 2. Mind you before that, there had to be an imagination, a fantasy, of a house, a car, a phone.
That, for me is evidence based logical reasoning. In principal.
It's a bit like a scientifical method.
The supposition: The terrible snowman exist is a useful one cause you can prove it by finding him.
The supposition: The terrible snowman does not exist is not useful cause by not finding him you didn't prove, can't prove, he doesn't exist.
In science the only question that can be answered is a logical question.
Illogical questions can be answered but the answers are bound to be illogical too.
There are many standards, I agree. But the only one based on hard, coldstone facts and useful is a logical standard in the scientific sense.
I agree the jurisdictional system is a system based on another type of so-called logic. The Aristotelian one.
But that is not based on mathematics, like 1+1=2. And therefore not scientific.
I like to think, suppose, that creating art, like music, literature, prose, poetry, films, photography, painting, architecture, is like researching science but without prove. Without evidence. It uses the same method. Is it therefore of a lesser value? Not to me, but I know there are different opinion on that.
By the way I found out that not that many years ago but before my time, the entity Academy consisted of 3 territories; Education, Science and Arts. They were for a long time considered to be belonging to the same environment in a classical sense. Deriving from the Greec and Roman culture.
Due to developments like specialisation this is no longer the case although I read 2 articles promoting it, and reasoning there would be great or greater benefits from it. I don't know, not an expert but it sounded great.
"Consensus Reality" is the best we can do, but reality is an illusion. All those things that can be created because 1+1=2 are all "real" because we can see them, feel them, weigh them. But how do we know we can trust our own senses?