RE: William Lane Craig denies the number zero.
October 24, 2016 at 9:11 pm
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2016 at 9:12 pm by Jehanne.)
(October 24, 2016 at 3:33 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(October 22, 2016 at 10:26 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: The number zero obviously exists.Aren't you the guy who said that existence isn't a property? Now you're telling me that something with no properties exists? C'mon.
I'm an ex-Catholic, by the way; came to that conclusion years ago that it was just a bunch of bullshit, purely man-made. "Zero" exists just as "1", "2", "3", etc. exists. Craig loves to rail against actual infinities; that's why he has a problem with "zero", because he does not accept the existence of actual infinities in the World, except, of course, when it comes to "God". But, if numbers exist in some Platonic sense, why is that such a problem? I can at least comprehend the number zero (say, when I have no money left), or even "negative" numbers (say, when my bank account overdrafts and I get all of those damn charges!), and certainly, a positive balance as well!! I can't, however, comprehend God; for all the time that I spent praying while growing up, God never spoke back to me, not once. Looking back on it, it was no different than me talking to myself.
