Banno

But you are good for the length of my threads...

Again. See the "because" in The stuff after that is the reason. And it's the same one I explained to you previously. So the problem is that you don't ...

@"Bartricks" I'm quite happy to debate this, if you like. Fancy a bit of formality? Ah, on second thought, it would be flogging a dead hose. I take it...

Ah. SO it has extras.

There's all sorts of options. Again, I didn't start this thread in order to specify a must-follow set of rules. The idea was just to track things that...

Just a bit. :wink:

Got an argument for that?

What more does “Pegasus exists” or “Alaska exists” mean than “This has a place in what I have to say”?

When I took my wallet out of my pocket, I created a nothing in my pocket.

Look! The devil quoting scripture... :wink:

Yeah, alright, take it that I misspoke, and look a the following Sentence: What I was aiming at is that logic is the handmaid of what is the case. One...

I do. ...so does language. Logic is about the rules of language. Language is about how the world is. I'm not seeing a problem.

Friends and happiness. Doesn't make it true.

OK, so what is at issue here?

Cheers, Bart. You have yourself a good day, now.

That noncontradiction is both the way the world is and a rule of language. It amounts to the same thing.

SO your argument for religious belief is that it gives you friends and happiness. SO does a bottle of Scotch.

SO what.

Yep. That's my point.

Can you have a shape with a finite area and yet an infinite perimeter?

Yeah, all of that. But that misses the point. There's a difference between "Amalac" and Amalac. But no difference between Amalac and Amalac.

Why? An island on an infinite ocean.

Well... That's the point in question. Something philosophically quite odd happens when someone uses a name. There's a way in which the use ceases to b...

Suppose your meme is right. When science invokes its invisible forces, we get iPhones and airplanes. What do you get when you invoke religion's invisi...

Seems to me that (2) assumes your conclusion.

There's a problem one faces when someone proposes that we accept contradictions. It renders argument effectively impossible. so your ...is quite right...

I'm pretty sure it was a mere bit of rhetoric on his part. At least, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. IF he really doesn't understand propositi...

I think there are real problems with what Russell says here. He was working with a faulty model of language as a seperate domain to the world - hence ...

Looks good. Thanks.

Yes - if it looks like a contradiction, first response is that you have said it wrong.

I'm using the web site - are you on the app?

My delta goes to 10??

Three each; roughly, introduction, consolidation and rebuttal.

Well, yes - the point being that removing the las of noncontradiction leads immediately to absurdity. But OK, I take your point. Well, I can't see why...

Hmm. Ok, worth having a think about it again. Suppose (p & ~p) is true in some word . Then any proposition q will be true, including propositions the ...

Thanks.

And so for you there are possible worlds in which contradictions occur. That contradiction implies that anything can be true, not just in that possibl...

Well, good thinking, perhaps. Edit: oh, noticed the typo - the way you think works or the way that things work?)

And how will you enforce that?

Seems to me if you take a cup of water from an infinft sea, you still have an infinite sea.

Pff. As if.

Oh, oh Me! I can do both! AH, as can @"T Clark", I see. Beans. Lentils. and cheese. Yum.

...that sweet smell of summer.

That strikes me as a misunderstanding of the "power" of logic. Logic is just grammar. So, yes, god can say what ever he likes, but if he is going to m...

You can't say "yes" to an exclusive "Or" Would you add to the burdens of the forum moderators? Or the forum moderators commit to enforcing judgements ...

Ok, see if I can work through this. God is a necessary being; hence god exists in every possible world (definition of necessary being). A necessary be...

, , Debate moderators are not forum moderators. Would you add to the burdens of the forum moderators? Or do you see some sort of "separation of the po...

Yep. That's what this shows.