RE: God is so quiet
February 8, 2018 at 2:30 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2018 at 2:30 pm by GrandizerII.)
(February 8, 2018 at 12:48 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(February 8, 2018 at 12:37 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Not so fast. I might have messed up at the end.
I'll tell you why.
The phrase "no apples exist" is not illogical. So my reasoning is flawed there.
Okay, I see that. But, Steve’s comparison is a fallacious one (a composition fallacy) so you were working from damaged material. Particular objects existing or not existing in a point of time within our broader known existence, is a categorically different comparison than that of existence versus non-existence.
For sure, his reasoning is flawed. He thinks the negation of all that can possibly exist is a logical possibility, but this would require excluding the existence of that which "materially" makes such a state of affairs possible. So it's not that "nothing exists" is logical (it's not), but that I should have added more qualifiers in that post of mine. Instead, I rushed straight to the ending skipping some important details. In this sense, it was flawed.
