How can I find the truth on the answers to my previous questions?

Question

esp how can the gaia theory be proven? Ok I accept it is a hypothesis.
and also others. What metohd of reaosoning should i apply when deciding whether a philosophical point of view is worth bothering about?
sorry that is more than one question.

Answer 1

Where in life you would find engagement of mind without often finding along the way, or eventually reaching at crossroads of opinions, dichotomies, dilemmas, quandaries of contrasting reasoning or narrow impasses of high knowledge? May be we should just learn to find our own answers even to questions most common in the mind; may be we should just learn to see thing with courage, from our own point-of-view while still regarding others. This, in a sense, is good for each of us, I think, as we so often find ourselves among a variety of contrasting opinions that we cannot help but see things better.

I find the analogy of a simple pathway or road through a landscape to be most pertinent for the use of understanding of this matter in general terms. We often see how roads are paved, sometimes upon most rocky and uneven surfaces of land. We do not always find ourselves upon solid land surfaces, for there are often ravines, rifts, gullies, gorges, rivers and canyons in the way, in which case, we have to defy the reason of solid ground ... we build bridges, bridges that last as long as the rest of the stretch of the road. Then often we come across mountains that sometimes, we go round, sometimes we go over, while some other times we tunnel through them to see the light of the day on the side. It is a harmonious and most economical compromise between a landscape and human purpose that in the end gives us a useful road or a pathway across a difficult and impossible terrain.

Answer 2

You can establish truth regarding the Gaian hypothesis by designing an experiment with a control, and conducting the experiment from a point of view outside the experiment.

Reasoning methods to apply to the problem of selecting which philosophical points are worth bothering about?

Subjective value is not suceptible to reason. Try flipping a coin. It isn't the point of view that makes it interesting, it's the person doing the reasoning. You make it interesting or boring, depending on whether you're a boring or an interesting person.

Answer 3

Read: John Henry Newman "The Grammar of Assent". This text highlights the significance of a prudential judgment in terms of human knowing.

Answer 4

The search for truth is man's age-old pursuit from the time of the philosophers. Truth cannot be invented. It is invariably discovered sometimes by fluke, most of the time by trial and error but for the gifted like Einstein by mathematical formulations derived from his mind. Hypotheses are mere approximation of the truth(s) and are provisional at that.

Ultimately, we just have to leave it to modern science to unveil the mysteries for us, to find out the infallible truth and to quench our insatiable thirst for knowledge.

Answer 5

The Truth is out there if you look for it.
Surely ALL points of view are worth bothering to hear?

Answer 6

By striving to go to heaven one day. When you get there ask God !
Any answer that I could muster, would only be hypothetical at best !.

Answer 7

Go study like the rest of us.

Answer 8

the gaia theory ifs good./;