RE: Atheism
July 3, 2018 at 9:45 am
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2018 at 10:03 am by LadyForCamus.)
(July 2, 2018 at 11:46 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I’m sorry, I’ll get to the rest later (may be delayed with the holiday). However, I have a quick question. A catagory error is an ontological error, where a property is inappropriately applied where it doesn’t belong, judging a painting’s worth by how much it weighs would be a category mistake. The worth of a painting is not valued in that way. So what is the category that you are saying is being misused here? A category error is ontological, and therefore objective. So it cannot be based on your knowledge or a priori belief. Your subjective experience doesn’t change the nature of anything. I don’t understand how you are applying this category error.
Sure. So, from Wikipedia (if I may):
Quote:categorical mistake, or mistake of category is a semantic or ontological error in which things belonging to a particular category are presented as if they belong to a different category or, alternatively, a property is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property.
Its own name and definition put “supernatural” in a seperate and distinct category from “natural”. Unless you are going attempt to draw some kind of false equivalence between the two, I don’t see how they could be rationally considered as categorically equal.
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Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.