(August 31, 2016 at 12:22 pm)Rhythm Wrote: In context, it's a failure of the power of defining. If one defines god -as- a necessarry being in an argument meant to demonstrate it;s existence, one has simply assumed their conclusion... meanwhile the modal hook tells us that god cannot -be- a necessary being...thus defining it define it as such (in addition to being invalid) is to refuse the validity of modal logic...which forms the basis of the most popular modern ontological arguments -for- god in the first place.
It's a giant steaming pile.
When faced with a big steaming pile of it .. I just want to be somewhere else.
