RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
February 16, 2020 at 11:26 am
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2020 at 11:31 am by The Grand Nudger.)
No, I mean to say genetic. The matter of a stolen concept arises when one assertion or premise used to reject another shares a genetic relationship with that other. Consider a hierarchy of claims as a family tree. If two assertions of fact are cousins, then the fact of their shared grandparent cannot be what makes one true and the other false.
Specifically with reference to your comments, an assertion of fact derived from reduction necessarily accepts the genetic validity of reduction. MA has tried to explain this to you in single units, that unit being special pleading - as he put it, making exceptions for one case and not another meaningfully identical case.
As far as unproductive diversions over the contents of cog sci and what people in that field do and don't accept about non-human cognizance.....
Why not just google it? You might not know.....but there is a way to know. Also as MA put it, there's no sense in warning anyone you're talking to about the limits of fmri's and the like - the entire field if you wanted to..really. Those limits and warnings are informed by the same logical formulation. We "know" them just as much and for the same reasons as we "know" of consciousness, human or otherwise.
Specifically with reference to your comments, an assertion of fact derived from reduction necessarily accepts the genetic validity of reduction. MA has tried to explain this to you in single units, that unit being special pleading - as he put it, making exceptions for one case and not another meaningfully identical case.
As far as unproductive diversions over the contents of cog sci and what people in that field do and don't accept about non-human cognizance.....
Why not just google it? You might not know.....but there is a way to know. Also as MA put it, there's no sense in warning anyone you're talking to about the limits of fmri's and the like - the entire field if you wanted to..really. Those limits and warnings are informed by the same logical formulation. We "know" them just as much and for the same reasons as we "know" of consciousness, human or otherwise.
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