(October 24, 2016 at 5:06 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I don't think you've seen this one before. It's uniquely confused. Most of these fly-by-night apologists haven't a clue about how the meaning of the terms they are using have changed since antiquity and the Middle Ages when the demonstrations were first formulated.
But I still find it boring having the same circular arguments over and over. You know, when I was at university, medieval history and it's writings have been part of the curriculum. I can't really remember which one of the scholars the sheet was about I was handed to translate, but it had a picture and a caption reading "hochgelahrt man", which literally translated into "hichly learned man". This was about some guy from the 13th century, a clergyman, and I remember musing, what could you have known to be deserving of the title? Virtually nothing going by our standards, was the answer I came up with. Well, he probably knew his philosophers and the writings of his time, better than me, that's for sure. But that's also about all he knew. He knew nothing about the world and it's workings.