RE: Do your beliefs imply a Necessary being exists?
August 17, 2012 at 6:24 am
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2012 at 6:26 am by CliveStaples.)
(August 14, 2012 at 5:16 pm)Shell B Wrote: The bottom line is that the questions posed by your test do not imply anything. They are insufficient for sussing out enough of a person's belief system. The answers can't even begin to imply anything. That is the basis of the problem. Who cares about this other hoopla, when the very foundation of your argument is based on a really shitty quiz?
Well, nobody ever said that the questions imply anything. The question is whether the responses imply anything.
There are posted, logical arguments that deduce certain conclusions from a certain subset of responses. Sure, those conclusions might not be anything like "The Christian God must therefore exist" or "The Christian God must therefore be plausible" or "The Christian God must therefore not exist", or anything so specific.
Perhaps the only conclusion that can be reached (and only if a certain set of responses are given) is something as weak as "the existence of a Necessary Being is plausible". But that's not nothing.
(August 16, 2012 at 11:32 pm)Categories+Sheaves Wrote: I guess that works
Really? Because I still don't understand what the multiplication is supposed to mean. Or equality--is it logical equivalence?
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
