(November 16, 2016 at 9:17 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote:(November 16, 2016 at 8:58 am)FallentoReason Wrote: You failed to ever explicate your mysterious stance on why it's neither, you failed to recognise an argument in favour of your own position and now you fail to explicate why you don't think these are colossal fuck ups.
Learn philosophy before we speak again, because I'm not wasting time correcting your wankery.
I understand the philosophy I'm talking about unlike you.
"Neither because the gods don't exist" is a possible third horn.
You are being thick. That isn't a response to an argument in favour of your position. It's the fucking conclusion, Jesus Christ.
Quote:That makes it a false dichotomy. A true dichotomy contains the word "not".
The negation creates nothing more than a mutually exclusive scenario, which *is* currently the case.
Quote: With a true dichotomy there is no third option.
Which is what the theist wants to say regarding Euthyphro's Dilemma. Just stop, for fuck's sake.
Quote:It's not a position. It's a fact that if a dichotomy can be answered coherently with "neither" then it's false.
~ The Theistic Apologies of Ham the Athiest
Quote:You have a position. Your position is denying that a false dichotomy is a false dichotomy. And the dichotomy itself has no relevance to your incoherent failed hypothetical in the OP.
Just stop. Your ability to miserably and repeatedly fail to grasp an argument was an interesting spectacle the first time, but now it's just annoying.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle