RE: Would you be an atheist if science and reason wasn't supportive of atheism?
December 7, 2012 at 1:52 am
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2012 at 2:06 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 7, 2012 at 12:34 am)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: So something can have two mutually exclusive properties at the same time?At the same time in conversation, yep. At the same time with reference to the event, nope. You clearly haven't been paying attention (even to yourself) We might reference an a priori understanding of the odds of any given event alongside the certainty of that event as we know that it occurred. You know, before...and after.
Quote:Ie, you're willing to violate a fundamental tenet of logic?I have to make no such choice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_noncontradiction
You gotta choose between the logical law of noncontradiction (which says something can't be improbable and certain simultaneously), and your understanding of probability calculus.
I suggest you drop your understanding of probability calculus.
Are you ever going to calculate the probability of your last post? Let me help you. Before the fact....the exact post, at that exact time, in those exact words, from you exactly as you are (invoke a stream of variables following this too long to even list).....highly improbable. But here we sit, staring at the certainty of your last post, regardless. 1:1. That's the probability of an event that is known to have occurred. I'll keep saying it until it sinks in. It's not some sort of computational arcana, it's not even advanced math, it's some pretty fundamental shit Vinny.
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