Posted by Jean Terrien on January 28, 2000 at 03:07:53 AM EST:
In Reply to: Answers to "les questions des téléologues" posted by Hate Company on January 27, 2000 at 09:48:28 PM EST:
Qu'est-ce qui t'empeche de repondre r la question: tout a une fin? ou non?
This is what epistemology calls an "uncheckable claim".
One can never know if all things have an end or not, because to check if all things have an end
one has to wait for the end of all things to occur.
If they do not have one, this would take
an infinity.
If they do, then the observer should have an end too, every observer as a matter of fact,
so who would be there to testify that all things do have an end?
Hence, this grand teleologic question, is just an uncheckable claim, an amusement for the easily amused,
just like the ancient problem of the man who says "I always lie".
So there you are.
Bravo !