RE: I am an orthodox Christian, ask me a question!
August 12, 2009 at 6:33 pm
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2009 at 7:02 pm by Jon Paul.)
(August 12, 2009 at 5:21 pm)Tiberius Wrote: It is easily falsifiable. Just show that two contradictory statements can be true at the same time.If two contradictory statements are true at the same time, then the law of contradiction has been contradicted, and then it doesn't apply, and the law of contradiction is not contradicted either, since to say that it is contradicted presupposes the law of contradiction.
Quote:Not true, since you are assuming that if two contradictory statements can be true and false at the same time, then *all* contradictory statements can be true and false at the same time.You just said that the criterion for falsification of the law of contradiction is exactly to show that two contradictory statements are true at the same time, in which case the law of contradiction has been contradicted, but since the law has then been contradicted, then the law does not apply and has not actually been contradicted since that would require to invoke the law of contradiction, and is still unfalsified.
(August 12, 2009 at 6:23 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: When you say that I'm 'a mind', You have not given any evidence for this. I have a mind, yes - in the sense of a brain. And I also have a body, in which the brain is part of, whether you call that a 'mind' or not, or whether you call that 'mental' or 'physical'. We still actually have evidence of exactly the same things.Whether I call you a mind, a brain, or a body, is irrelevant to the fact that you are a thinking and knowing intellect capable of intellection, or that you derive your knowledge of logic and truth from that fact of intellection and conceptual realisation. That I call you a mind or not is not an actual premise for the argument I made, and thus, you have failed to refute my argument.
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