RE: The Kalam Cosmological Argument
August 6, 2024 at 3:45 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2024 at 3:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 6, 2024 at 3:39 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Woudn't an argument have to be both valid and sound to be successful?
All cats are green, Smoky is a cat, therefore Smoky is green. Perfectly valid. I imagine the problem with Plantinga's argument is in the premises, like whether a possible world argument can get you to a real thing in the first place. I mean there are possible worlds where cucumbers that taste like chocolate, or John Kerry became president in 2004, but I don't think there're any real world implications from that.
Yeah, maybe, but a whole lot of other things we might think are un-controversially true and can be expressed in modal terms or possible world semantics are also implicated in that. Modal logic is..ironically, used in formal verification. To test the safety and reliability of systems or software. Let that sink in. We may have good reason to doubt a system of logic we use to test the reliability of other logical systems, lol.
OTOH, maybe the world really is stranger than we normally suppose - and a things possibility is the chief determinant of it's existence and/or central to necessity.
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