Well, you're half right. What I did was this: Take a universal negative, one that is obviously a necessary truth (in our case, "There is no x,...
It also occurs to me that "You can't prove a universal negative," means "There is no P, such that P is a universal negative, and P can be proved,"...
A more formal proof, where "E" = existential quantifier. 1. ~~Ex (Px & ~Px); (initial assumption) 2. Ex (Px & ~Px); from 1, by double...
For everything that's wrong with the notion that you can't prove a universal negative, see my newest thread in the Atheism & Agnosticism forum,...
Many atheists make the very bad argument that you don't need to prove the non-existence of God because you prove a universal negative. I'm not...
Umm... I don't recall Dawkins ever talking about quantum physics. Where does he talk about that?
I think I'll chime in about here, since the focus of the conversation seems to have switched to the matter of definitions. Now, of course,...
I thought I'd post a list of philosophical/religious books that have had something of an impace on me. I'd like to see a list of some of yours,...
Sweet Jesus, I can't believe this thread is still going on. Happy Easter.
3DJay: "The kind [of belief] that is dealt with [in epistemology] as such is where "to believe something" just means to think that it is true —...
No, you're definitely the one who's confused, unwilling, or incapable of understanding this. Frankly, I'm done trying to explain it to you.
3DJay: I don't know why you're still confused about the matter of redundancy, but I'll try to clear things up, again. I add the qualifier...
There is, of course, no logical contradiction in what you've said. But there is, I think, a semantic mistake. This has to do with what, exactly,...
Reality involves subjective, inter-subjective, and objective aspects. If reality were totally subjective, then little sense can be made of the...
I take it by "expand uniformily," you mean that everything, including ourselves and measuring devices, gets proportionally larger. The answer,...
First, I'll deal with Occam. I find it a little disgusting that you're trying to pass off genocidal maniacs as Nietzschean supermen. That's...
Huxley wrote, ""The justification of the Agnostic principle lies in the success which follows upon its application, whether in the field of...
First, I want to deal with Occam. I'm not saying that Jesus was God, and I never was. I'm saying that if the Jews are right, then the Christians...
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