RE: The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God
December 30, 2015 at 6:05 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2015 at 6:07 pm by robvalue.)
PNC?
Principle of non contradiction... Let's see...
A statement can't be both true and false, in the same sense, at the same time. I think that's it? Sometimes called the "excluded middle" if I remember rightly.
As far as I can tell, it's an axiom we put in place based on observation. Like all our attempts to model reality, it's descriptive rather than prescriptive.
Life is absurd. Everything about it. We don't know if there is any purpose. If there is one, we don't know what it is. Trying to ask "why" only gets you so far. After a while, you just have to accept we're here, and things appear to work a certain way. We can get on with it, or be forever trapped by insistence on definitive answers.
Someone can probably clean that up, I'm not formally trained in logic. I just picked up the basics recently.
Principle of non contradiction... Let's see...
A statement can't be both true and false, in the same sense, at the same time. I think that's it? Sometimes called the "excluded middle" if I remember rightly.
As far as I can tell, it's an axiom we put in place based on observation. Like all our attempts to model reality, it's descriptive rather than prescriptive.
Life is absurd. Everything about it. We don't know if there is any purpose. If there is one, we don't know what it is. Trying to ask "why" only gets you so far. After a while, you just have to accept we're here, and things appear to work a certain way. We can get on with it, or be forever trapped by insistence on definitive answers.
Someone can probably clean that up, I'm not formally trained in logic. I just picked up the basics recently.
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