(August 14, 2012 at 12:17 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: How would you know any Creator is logically possible if different versions of the Creator are not?
If X type of Creator or Y type of Creator aren't logically possible, or surely one of them is not...then what you makes you think any Creator is logically possible.
You're the one who made the claim, not me.
Remember, the logic here is more about what your beliefs imply. It's not trying to argue that there are good reasons to think that a Necessary Being exists; rather, the argument is "X, Y, and Z if true imply or give good reasons to think that a Necessary Being exists."
That is, it's merely establishing that p -> q, not that there are good reasons to accept p.
Quote:The logic we deduce that a Creator is possible logically, the same can be applied to x type of Creator, surely, or am I missing something?
It's like saying apples are possible, but only one type of apple is possible. Does that make sense? We know there is variety type of apples.
Likewise, there is various concepts of a Creator.
I don't know if that analogy works. There are many kinds of squares (different colors, sizes, etc.), but none of them are circular. So you can't just arbitrarily say, "Oh, we know that things of type X are logically possible; therefore, we can conclude that things of type X and Y are logically possible."
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