RE: Fallacies & Strategies
June 6, 2022 at 2:37 am
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2022 at 3:14 am by The Grand Nudger.)
As has been repeatedly explained, it's not actually category error to compare things. Full stop.
More pedantically... the god of classical theism is a personification of x. A personal and intervening nature is a characteristic of all theistic gods, and is also a characteristic of tooth fairies - ourselves as well...while we're at it. It may not be a person like a human person..but that hardly matters. Neither is a tooth fairy - or, at least, it wouldn;t be any safer to assume they were than to assume a god is. So even if it could be a category error to compare things...it still wouldn't be a category error to compare gods and fairies (a large number of which, ofc..actually are diminutive forms of previous gods). As both share characteristics and attributes common to each other. That this offends the sensibilities of the religious does not make it fallacious reasoning.
They're certainly free to demonstrate that a category error has been committed in upside down land, by insisting that their god, or the god of classical theism, is neither personal nor intervening, as fairies and other gods are....but I think we can see why that's a non starter for a theist, can't we? There's nothing in edward fesers blog or anywhere else that can turn a comparison between personal and intervening x's, between different mythological concepts, between assorted real or imaginary entities and forces, or between dogs and cats.... into a category error, no matter how many times you, neo, or kloro reassert as much. A thing will be just as right or just as wrong the 100th time as it was the 1st.
More pedantically... the god of classical theism is a personification of x. A personal and intervening nature is a characteristic of all theistic gods, and is also a characteristic of tooth fairies - ourselves as well...while we're at it. It may not be a person like a human person..but that hardly matters. Neither is a tooth fairy - or, at least, it wouldn;t be any safer to assume they were than to assume a god is. So even if it could be a category error to compare things...it still wouldn't be a category error to compare gods and fairies (a large number of which, ofc..actually are diminutive forms of previous gods). As both share characteristics and attributes common to each other. That this offends the sensibilities of the religious does not make it fallacious reasoning.
They're certainly free to demonstrate that a category error has been committed in upside down land, by insisting that their god, or the god of classical theism, is neither personal nor intervening, as fairies and other gods are....but I think we can see why that's a non starter for a theist, can't we? There's nothing in edward fesers blog or anywhere else that can turn a comparison between personal and intervening x's, between different mythological concepts, between assorted real or imaginary entities and forces, or between dogs and cats.... into a category error, no matter how many times you, neo, or kloro reassert as much. A thing will be just as right or just as wrong the 100th time as it was the 1st.
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