RE: If you learned that the god of [insert religion] is real, would all bets be off?
January 8, 2024 at 5:52 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2024 at 6:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It means exactly that. Magic and the miraculous are palpably constrained by what we consider impossible otherwise. That magic is fictional in mere reality means nothing in a hypothetical where magic is actual and existent in the same. Has nothing to do with whether I think these rules we call logic are discovered or invented, they're a mix of both, and neither means shit if the great fairies exist.
The faithful already insist that their god can violate the law of identity. The water is both water and not water. Wine and not wine. Blood and not blood. You reckon they can do stuff like that to water or wine or blood but not a person? See, you're already leaving logic behind even in your defense of it. The current laws of physics are better vetted than the current laws of logical inference, and the word current is doing alot of work there that it could just as easily do applied to those latter laws.
The faithful already insist that their god can violate the law of identity. The water is both water and not water. Wine and not wine. Blood and not blood. You reckon they can do stuff like that to water or wine or blood but not a person? See, you're already leaving logic behind even in your defense of it. The current laws of physics are better vetted than the current laws of logical inference, and the word current is doing alot of work there that it could just as easily do applied to those latter laws.
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