RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 12, 2019 at 10:07 am
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2019 at 10:09 am by Acrobat.)
(August 12, 2019 at 9:38 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: All words are defined axiomatically. The only reason that “cat” means “cat”, is that we’ve decided to use that term in reference to them.It's not about the word good, but about the nature of what the word good is referring to. What the nature of the cat, the word cat refers to? What the nature of good, the word good refers to.
Some of us (an argument could be made that all of us) have axiomatically decided that when we speak of good and bad we are referring to help and harm.
Being helpful is good.
Being harmful or cruel is bad.
Being kind is good.
Being honest is good, being dishonest is bad.
To be loving is good, being hateful is bad.
There's a commonality on the meaning of good in all these examples.
You might thing the referent is something about helpfulness and harm, when it referent is actually something about being.