Meanwhile, sceptics don’t care about the external world.
And yet strangely enough, I have yet to see a self-proclaimed “skeptic” die of starvation due to not eating.
EDIT: Actually, now that I think about it, this could very easily be a selection effect. We observe no minds that behave this way, not because such minds can’t exist, but because such minds very quickly cease to exist.
No. They do less in terms of the soul and things like that, which theists care about, and rationalists don’t.
Meanwhile, sceptics don’t care about the external world.
So everything comes down, to epistemology, and epistemology comes down to values. Is that problem?
And yet strangely enough, I have yet to see a self-proclaimed “skeptic” die of starvation due to not eating.
EDIT: Actually, now that I think about it, this could very easily be a selection effect. We observe no minds that behave this way, not because such minds can’t exist, but because such minds very quickly cease to exist.
They have answers to that objection , just as rationalists have answers to theists’ objections.