Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: November 26, 2024, 12:57 pm

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Evidence for atheism
#71
RE: Evidence for atheism
And I'm going to have to side with Rasetsu if only because the way she said it carried me along and lulled me into agreement at every turn. I wasn't left to do any heavy thinking of my own and, gawd help me, I liked it.
Reply
#72
RE: Evidence for atheism
Rasetsu!
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
Reply
#73
RE: Evidence for atheism
The statement is false, but the statement is only that the argument given entails the conclusion, not that the conclusion is true. The entailment, if successful, is what makes the conclusion true. That the argument doesn't entail the conclusion says nothing about the conclusion, only about the entailment. I'm still not understanding your point.
[Image: extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg]
Reply
#74
RE: Evidence for atheism
The conclusion follows from the statement, does it not (it is, in fact, part of the statement)?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
Reply
#75
RE: Evidence for atheism
(September 25, 2014 at 7:48 pm)Rhythm Wrote: If any part of a statement is false....is that statement true or false?

You're getting confused as to what a "statement" in a logical argument is again. The whole of the argument is not a statement. It's constituent parts (premise, conclusion) are individually.

Honestly, I don't think I'm being unnecessarily pedantic here.
Reply
#76
RE: Evidence for atheism
(September 25, 2014 at 8:01 pm)Rhythm Wrote: The conclusion follows from the statement, does it not (it is, in fact, part of the statement)?

It may, to the first part, and no to the second. This is where you're running off the rails.
Reply
#77
RE: Evidence for atheism
No, I understand that we can parse them as such CD (if we wanted to consider some specific portion of the whole). We cant parse them as such -and- do logic though, can we?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
Reply
#78
RE: Evidence for atheism
(September 25, 2014 at 8:06 pm)Rhythm Wrote: No, I understand that we can parse them as such CD (if we wanted to consider some specific portion of the whole). We cant parse them as such -and- do logic though, can we?

Not in any traditional sense, no. The classic syllogism has exactly 3 statements: if p then q, p, q. The entire syllogism is not a statement and does not necessarily have a truth value.
Reply
#79
RE: Evidence for atheism
Splitters and lumpers we are?
Reply
#80
RE: Evidence for atheism
(September 25, 2014 at 8:11 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Not in any traditional sense, no. The classic syllogism has exactly 3 statements: if p then q, p, q. The entire syllogism is not a statement.
How is that not a statement? How can we separate any part from another and make such a statement?

If -not p- then what? If I plug that in, in place of your "if p" what happens?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
Reply



Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Veridical NDEs: Evidence/Proof of the Soul and the After-Life? Nishant Xavier 34 3261 July 17, 2024 at 7:34 am
Last Post: arewethereyet
  The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Nishant Xavier 38 3969 August 7, 2023 at 10:24 pm
Last Post: LinuxGal
  When were the Gospels Written? The External and Internal Evidence. Nishant Xavier 62 5164 August 6, 2023 at 10:25 pm
Last Post: LinuxGal
  Isaiah 53, 700 B.C: Historical Evidence of the Divine Omniscience. Nishant Xavier 91 7305 August 6, 2023 at 2:19 pm
Last Post: LinuxGal
  Conscience and the Moral Argument as Evidence for the Goodness of God. Nishant Xavier 162 14312 July 9, 2023 at 7:53 am
Last Post: Deesse23
  Signature in the Cell: DNA as Evidence for Design, beside Nature's Laws/Fine-Tuning. Nishant Xavier 54 4554 July 8, 2023 at 8:23 am
Last Post: Fake Messiah
  Why the resurrection accounts are not evidence LinuxGal 5 1279 October 29, 2022 at 2:01 pm
Last Post: LinuxGal
  Legal evidence of atheism Interaktive 16 3287 February 9, 2020 at 8:44 pm
Last Post: Fireball
  Evidence for Believing Lek 368 60380 November 14, 2019 at 5:39 pm
Last Post: GrandizerII
Information The Best Logique Evidence of God Existence Nogba 225 31898 August 2, 2019 at 11:44 am
Last Post: comet



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)