RE: Disproving Odin - An Experiment in arguing with a theist with Theist logic
March 16, 2018 at 5:51 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2018 at 5:51 pm by possibletarian.)
(March 16, 2018 at 5:01 pm)SteveII Wrote:(March 16, 2018 at 4:36 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: And if you destroy Tolstoy and his manuscript before he publishes, you destroy the story, which was only in the brain of Tolstoy and on that manuscript. If you destroy one of his books after it is published, it makes no difference because of all the other books with the same story, and all the other brains that remember it. A story (or symphony) is quite destructible if you catch it before it has a chance to propagate.
I agree. The existence of such an abstract object is contingent upon the minds that remember it. Here's a question, if there exists a copy of a novel (in some forgotten place) that no one has seen or heard of in a 1000 years, does the abstract object exist? Or, is it merely a potential while it sits dormant before a mind resurrects it from the pages? Hmm...
I mean really !! of course it materially exists, you just said so.
It's matter while laying undiscovered, and it's matter once discovered. Unless like we request you can show otherwise.
'Those who ask a lot of questions may seem stupid, but those who don't ask questions stay stupid'