RE: A Necessary Being?
August 31, 2016 at 7:20 pm
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2016 at 7:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 31, 2016 at 6:53 pm)TheMuslim Wrote: In your second post on this thread, you yourself provided two arguments - of identical logical form - that argue for and against the existence of a Necessary Being. If I'm correct, your reasoning against the possibility of a Necessary Being is based on the latter of those two arguments. If that is the case, then you are doing some pretty obvious cherry-picking. Since both use the exact same logic, why pick the latter over the former? You can't conclude that a Necessary Being is impossible with that kind of inconclusive logic.
...as has been mentioned over and over, god and a necessary being are not - necessarily, the same thing - god is simply a candidate for the designation. The argument he presented was an argument that concluded that -god- did not exist. Obviously, something that doesn't exist can't be a necessary being. Now, it's amusingly true that the modal form is inconclusive in this regard in that it can just as easily prove that god does or doesn't exist. That;s probably why it;s unconvicing as an argument for god, regardless of whether or not necessary beings exist.
There's no reason to capitalize it, btw, it's not a proper noun, lol. We're talking about things like Numbers and Propositions, after all....aren't we?
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