(November 21, 2016 at 5:41 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(November 21, 2016 at 4:15 pm)Primordial Bisque Wrote: Ah, St. Aquinas and his 5 ways of special pleading god into our imagination. How....13th century....or earlier. Didn't he base those arguments on Aristotelian philosophy?
Pretty much Aristotle because his philosophy has stood the test of time. Which of the 5 ways do you consider special pleading and why?
Well his first three are special pleading because his second premise invalidates his first ( evertyhing must have property X, therefore there exists a thing without property X), his fourth is special pleading because it assumes his prejudice is objective reality (perfection is defined in his subjective terms), and the fifth is special pleading because it tries to pass off an assertion as fact (it is in fact the same argument as Paley's watch, so gloriously debunked in On the Origin of Species).
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