RE: "God doesn't Exist"- Claim or Conclusion
December 22, 2016 at 2:05 pm
(This post was last modified: December 22, 2016 at 2:08 pm by robvalue.)
(December 22, 2016 at 12:14 pm)SteveII Wrote:(December 22, 2016 at 11:59 am)robvalue Wrote: I'd like anyone to define supernatural without using an equivocation fallacy.
The only definition I've heard that is consistent is that it refers to things external to our reality. This makes it subjective of course.
If something is defined to be unfalsifiable, it can be safely ignored. The question of its existence becomes irrelevant, for all practical purposes.
Supernatural is anything not part of the natural universe. As such, not constrained by our observable framework (perhaps constrained by another framework). That is not to say it cannot interact with our natural universe (causation).
On what basis do you make the philosophical statement that "If something is defined to be unfalsifiable, it can be safely ignored"?
What is the natural universe? Since universe generally means everything that exists, there's a language problem already. Our observable framework? I assume you must be referring to our attempts to model the framework; here is the equivocation. Our models are not the framework. We don't have access to the rules of the framework, so we cannot know if something isn't constrained by it. We can just have the as-yet unexplained.
I explain in the video why it can be ignored. If it makes no discernible difference to anything, then things are the same whether the thing is real or not. It only exists by assumption, because there can be no evidence for or against it.
If God is "doing something", then no one can differentiate it from him not doing anything. I'm doing pretty well so far ignoring all unfalsifiable phenomenon.
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