RE: If you learned that the god of [insert religion] is real, would all bets be off?
January 8, 2024 at 12:46 am
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2024 at 12:51 am by Sicnoo0.)
(January 8, 2024 at 12:19 am)Belacqua Wrote:(January 7, 2024 at 11:52 pm)Sicnoo0 Wrote: what I really want to know more than all else is whether you believe any god could convince you that they're capable of creating a married bachelor, or other such oxymorons, assuming you would still have the ability to think logically
I guess since we're speculating, I have to say that MAYBE everything I know about logic is simply a local and contingent misunderstanding. Since I don't have the knowledge that (we imagine) God would have, I have to admit I might be entirely wrong.
I guess where you and I disagree is that I believe you're being too charitable when you say "MAYBE everything I know about logic is simply a local and contingent misunderstanding. Since I don't have the knowledge that (we imagine) God would have, I have to admit I might be entirely wrong"
I, on the other hand, firmly believe there is zero chance that everything I think I know about logic can turn out to be a misunderstanding. Some of the more complicated things in logic, maybe, but not everything, because that would include things like the law of identity and the law of the excluded middle.
If a god tried to trick me into thinking he/she/it has produced a married bachelor, I would confidently hold to my belief that this is impossible.
This is where my concern with whether I'm being dogmatic comes in. Is my unwillingness to say that the most well-established laws of logic could be wrong a type of dogmatism?
I can see how it would be dogmatic to assume standard logic is the only logic that makes sense, and ignore quantum logic and many-valued logic. But that's outside the scope of what I want to ask questions about.