RE: Bring a Surah like it (is it a sound argument)
November 10, 2011 at 12:39 am
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2011 at 12:39 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Quote:----is it possible that a unique literature be brought by a human that cannot be replicated?
Possible,yes,likely, no.
Quote:Is there any proof that if it's style cannot be replicated, that it's divine?
No.
The argument is a 'black swan'. IE That a thing has not been seen or done does not necessarily mean it never will.
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On Falsification
Quote:Falsifiability or refutability of an assertion or a theory is the logical possibility that the assertion (or the theory) can be contradicted by an observation or the outcome of a physical experiment. That something is "falsifiable" does not mean it is false; rather, that if it is false, then some observation or experiment will produce a reproducible result that is in conflict with it.
The Black Swan
Quote:Are all swans white? The classical view of the philosophy of science is that it is the goal of science to "prove" such hypotheses or induce them from observational data. This seems hardly possible, since it would require us to infer a general rule from a number of individual cases, which is logically inadmissible. However, if we find one single black swan, logic allows us to conclude that the statement that all swans are white is false. Falsificationism thus strives for questioning, for falsification, of hypotheses instead of proving them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
