RE: Argument from perpetual identity against naturalism.
March 17, 2013 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2013 at 1:31 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(March 17, 2013 at 5:24 am)genkaus Wrote:What is the difference between a pattern and a feature? Isn't a pattern a type of feature? What is it that allows you to mental conceive a pattern if there is no pattern until it is mentally conceived? How can you identify or categorize something that does not yet exist?(March 16, 2013 at 11:59 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: You mention identifying features. How do you identify features unless those features already exist awaiting to be identified? Or to put it another way, how can humans recognize patterns unless the patterns already exist?You don't. We first need to identify and categorize patterns and features before we use them as identifying features.
