RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
February 17, 2020 at 1:56 pm
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2020 at 2:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
If you were prudent, you might realize that it's the conclusion that you wish to remain safe - not the argument. Stolen concepts threaten the safety of their conclusions by requiring the truth of the thing they're attempting to disprove.
So, for example, the scientific consensus that non human consciousness exists cannot be disproven by reference to facts of that same scientific consensus. Those, John, are facts of B. If your position A is that B is not true - that we do not know and perhaps cannot know whether an animal is conscious, then the non facts of a false B will not help you to establish as much.
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So, for example, the scientific consensus that non human consciousness exists cannot be disproven by reference to facts of that same scientific consensus. Those, John, are facts of B. If your position A is that B is not true - that we do not know and perhaps cannot know whether an animal is conscious, then the non facts of a false B will not help you to establish as much.
If you drink from the cog sci well, you're stuck with the contents of the water. This is the genetic relationship between your objections and the thing to which you object.
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