RE: '...And I'm an Atheist'
August 9, 2012 at 7:53 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2012 at 7:55 pm by CliveStaples.)
(August 9, 2012 at 7:50 pm)padraic Wrote: When I took logic,I was taught that for the sake of argument,argument, the premise is always assumed to be true. "If p then q" is also known as 'the first rule of inference' . To use it here as Clive has done is simply pretentious. However, to simply dismiss it because one does not understand comes across as ignorant and defensive.
It isn't being pretentious to say that the system of inference you're using is standard logic. It's being rigorous.
(August 9, 2012 at 7:53 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Didn't claim he wasn't correct (he was), nor do I particularly care if my comment was tu quoque (it was).
I just thought that "Pot, meet kettle" was a lot more polite than "My, Clive, what a sanctimonious, hypocritical prick you are".
Keep the ad homs up; I can safely ignore them, since they're irrelevant. I'm still waiting for Ben Davis and downbeatplum to respond to my actual argument.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
