(January 2, 2013 at 7:58 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Oh really? Necessarily true? Why?
By definition. Its truth is not determined by or dependent upon anything outside itself, nor is it possible to be false (i.e., necessarily true).
(January 2, 2013 at 7:58 pm)pocaracas Wrote: What's wrong with all other religions?
Because they all fail in one respect or another; some require intellectual currency from without in order to sustain coherence, some admit to being fictions and are content with that, some contain self-contradictions (and some are happy to admit and embrace those contradictions), some describe a world that does not look like the one we live in, and on and on.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)