J. comments on Religion's Claim to be Non-Disprovable - Less Wrong

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Comment author: J. 25 November 2007 08:03:58PM 1 point [-]

TGGP:

Presumably you think that the statement, "X is a truth only if falsifiable" is true. Is this statement falsifiable?

It isn't falsifiable on empirical grounds. It might be falsiable on a priori grounds, though I bet that's not what you have in mind. If you admit of a priori grounds, though, you've opened the door back up for ethics despite it not being empirically testable.