Why hold unprovable beliefs?
Are there any cases where holding an unprovable belief allows for something not otherwise possible? I'm not talking about unproven, but unprovable. Are unprovable claims ever objectively positive? If they are not, why hold them?
Unprovable claims cannot help add to the sum total of human knowledge. They cannot be used as a starting point for proving something else. An unprovable supposition can be reached logically, but there it stops, a logical cul-de-sac. If a claim is untestable and unfalsifiable, is there any point in making it other than as a rhetorical tool in bad argumentation?
To take Sam Harris' example: right now, I have an even number of cells in my body. It's definitely falsifiable, since we can design an experiment to test the claim (count all the cells in my body), but it's untestable (for obvious reasons) and therefore unprovable.
Can anyone give me examples of unprovable beliefs that are objectively a "good thing"?
In short, if a belief is unprovable, why hold it?
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