RE: A Necessary Being?
August 31, 2016 at 6:21 am
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2016 at 6:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Some concepts are incompatible with some means of inference. God as a necessary being is incompatible with the modal operator just as unidirectional temporal causality is incompatible with the mp/mt switch.
Logic isn't a magical talisman that always works, under every condition, and in every combination. You might say, Muslim, that it's impossible for a necessary being to not exist, but if you accept the modal hook it simply shows you that god is no such being. If you prefer the concept of a god as a necessary being over the modal operator (they can't both be true, as you said..it leads to contradictions), so be it..but you're just referring to a preference for a concept over a means of inference...not proving one true and the other false (regardless of which we place under either category).
Logic isn't a magical talisman that always works, under every condition, and in every combination. You might say, Muslim, that it's impossible for a necessary being to not exist, but if you accept the modal hook it simply shows you that god is no such being. If you prefer the concept of a god as a necessary being over the modal operator (they can't both be true, as you said..it leads to contradictions), so be it..but you're just referring to a preference for a concept over a means of inference...not proving one true and the other false (regardless of which we place under either category).
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