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Like I say, you're just very conventional. I deny necessity. One way to express that is to say that one thinks all truths are contingent. But I don't ...
July 15, 2021 at 03:04
When it comes to metaphysical possibilities, it seems to me that the issue is whether we think Reason determines what is or isn't possible, or our ima...
July 15, 2021 at 02:56
That's a quite different argument - there you are arguing that the law of non-contradiction is a necessary truth, rather than a contingent one. But yo...
July 15, 2021 at 02:13
Question begging. You have to show me to be committed to a contradiction WITHOUT assuming necessity. You are a bad and conventional thinker. That's yo...
July 14, 2021 at 10:00
Yes, of course he could do that. He can do anything. For instance, he could make it the case that you make good points. That isn't good evidence he's ...
July 14, 2021 at 04:51
You haven't explained it once - not once. This - Bartricks claims the law of non-contradiction is contingently true....#$^^** Kazam!! He's contradicte...
July 14, 2021 at 04:33
1.if p, then modus ponens is invalid. 2.p 3. Therefore modus ponens is invalid.
July 13, 2021 at 15:18
1. If p, then premise 2 is false. 2. P 3. Therefore premise 2 is false.
July 13, 2021 at 14:15
Really?? Pure wishful thinking on your part. You seem to think that if I think it is possible for the law of non-contradiction to be false, then I thi...
July 13, 2021 at 12:06
No, you'd be mildly annoying a tiger. But yes, I don't think it'll be profitable. Hasn't been thus far. Just lies and squiggles squoggles.
July 12, 2021 at 07:34
you are just expressing convictions, not telling me the means by which you know things. What you say is false, incidentally. But I want to know how yo...
July 12, 2021 at 07:30
Look, I don't have a limitless supply of glasses to smash into my face.
July 12, 2021 at 05:19
Why not? You think it is only if the past is necessary that we can know about it? Why on earth would you think that? That's as silly as thinking that ...
July 12, 2021 at 05:11
Well, now I'm down one glass.
July 12, 2021 at 04:03
Ah, the fine and delicate logic of a whisk brain. God can change the past. That doesn't mean he does or has. 'Can' doesn't mean 'has' or 'is doing'. B...
July 12, 2021 at 03:27
How do you know that? You don't know, I suspect. That is, you don't know how you know it. Doesn't matter. I think it is true too. So, this mysterious ...
July 12, 2021 at 03:11
LIke I say, you don't understand anyone. No, I do not 'reject history' (whatever that means). No it doesn't. As I have said before, show your working....
July 12, 2021 at 03:10
Yes, to say that something is 'possibly true' is normally to express tentativeness. And that's fine. That's how I generally use it. Similarly, if some...
July 12, 2021 at 02:56
Why would it be 50/50? I have a coffee every morning. I don't have to. I just do. But the chance that I will have one tomorrow is not 50/50, but about...
July 12, 2021 at 02:50
She's not 'my' God, she's God. And she's not a god of contradictions, for it is due to her that there are not any. I don't understand the question. Yo...
July 12, 2021 at 02:40
Because he does not seem to have done so. It appears to everyone that if a proposition is true, it is not also false. Be assured, I test it every day....
July 12, 2021 at 02:06
Stop derailing this with your incoherent ramblings. Nothing - nothing - you say about the views of others is accurate. Nothing.
July 12, 2021 at 01:39
What the hell are you on about? You never make any sense. Stop attributing bonkers views to me! Stop just asserting things without showing any working...
July 12, 2021 at 01:36
I don't know what you mean. If there appeared to be propositions that are true and false at the same time, that'd be prima facie evidence that the law...
July 12, 2021 at 01:25
Some propositions would appear to be true and false at the same time.
July 12, 2021 at 01:20
I don't know what you mean. I think propositions are true or false. I don't think adding 'possibly' adds anything, apart from when it is being used to...
July 12, 2021 at 00:45
I don't know what you mean. I don't think the law of non-contradiction is false. I think it is true. This is getting a bit mind bending. I think it is...
July 12, 2021 at 00:28
How? How do you know it? Look, I am not going to get into a tedious 'how do we know anything' debate. If you think the law of non-contradiction is tru...
July 12, 2021 at 00:25
I'm not. He can come in at any point and clarify, but he'll just squiggle and squoggle and hope that others will accept that he's doing what he isn't....
July 12, 2021 at 00:22
Yes, I know. It's the same. But it doesn't get us anywhere. It's like giving me the Dutch for necessary. I want to know what the truth-maker is of the...
July 12, 2021 at 00:12
Yes, I know - he, not I, is 'arguing' that I am contradicting myself. So, he - not I - is 'arguing' that as I think the law of non-contradiction is co...
July 12, 2021 at 00:10
I don't know what that means. If a proposition is true, it is true in virtue of corresponding to some state of affairs. Now, what is the truth maker f...
July 12, 2021 at 00:09
What? No, he thinks that if it is 'possible' for the law of non-contradiction to be false, then it 'is' false. I think that's absurd - that there is n...
July 12, 2021 at 00:04
I haven't changed the terminology. You are changing the topic from metaphysics to epistemology. Now, you tell me how you know the law of non-contradic...
July 12, 2021 at 00:02
He thinks that if it is possible for the law of non contradiction to be false, then it is actually false. Which is as absurd as thinking that if it is...
July 11, 2021 at 22:26
How do you know it is necessarily true? Do you see, touch, smell, taste or hear its necessity? Tell me how you are aware of its status as a necessary ...
July 11, 2021 at 22:22
Yes, off you run. When you have an actual argument that shows my claim that the law of non contradiction is contingently true, do say. In the meantime...
July 11, 2021 at 22:16
I do not understand your question. I don't even think the word 'contingent' does any real work, if that helps. I think there are true propositions and...
July 11, 2021 at 22:09
Er, no, I have not rejected logic. Christ, you are woefully bad at logic. I don't know what the symbols mean, yet you don't know what follows from wha...
July 11, 2021 at 22:04
No, you said the debate is over whether there is any possible world in which God does not exist "theists say no, atheist yes". And I am not sure that ...
July 11, 2021 at 20:24
Yes, Banno's argument is circular. Saying that there is a possible world in which God does not exist is to assert that God's existence is not necessar...
July 11, 2021 at 19:55
I don't know what you are saying. It doesn't engage with the OP. I hear 'skydaddy' all the bloody time. It's not original. It's tedious. If only there...
July 11, 2021 at 19:28
No, I am demanding an argument that doesn't presuppose the reality of necessity. I think the law of non contradiction is actually true. True, not fals...
July 11, 2021 at 19:15
Arrived at knowledge of God via reasoned argument alone. Born and raised an atheist. Atheist until mid thirties. Then I became a cautious theist after...
July 11, 2021 at 19:06
you are now begging the question by confusing knowing everything with knowing all true propositions. I have argued that these are not the same and so ...
July 11, 2021 at 10:23
God can make mistakes. But he didn't make you. For that would have been immoral.
July 11, 2021 at 09:21
I am talking about an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent person.
July 11, 2021 at 09:19
no, you don't need the squiggles, as I am demonstrating. If you can't say in words what the squiggles stand for, it's because you don't know what you ...
July 11, 2021 at 05:27
No. Once again, if something is 'contingently' true then there is a possible world in which it is false. It does not follow that it is false in all po...
July 11, 2021 at 04:18
haha, pathetic. Like I say, you haven't got an argument. The law of non-contradiction is true. It is contingently true. That doesn't mean 'false'. It ...
July 11, 2021 at 00:43