(June 4, 2013 at 7:48 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Which is -his- contribution to the narrative. If I hear somebody say that they were an atheist who still talked to god- I'm content with the conclusion that they are either A: being incredibly disingenuous, or B: don;t understand what the word atheist means in the first place.
I get that you think my approach is eisegetical,(I don't think it is) but yours seems to me to be unreasonably skeptical.
Quote:I don't have to add anything to the statement to reach this conclusion. I don't need any special rules-or exceptions, and I don't have to redefine anything that they've said.
If this is an appeal to some principle of parsimony, you should be more clear. It sounds like "I don't have to think that hard about it."
Again, Terr could clear this up if he would just give us the original quote in its context.
"I know what you are thinking about,' said Tweedledum: 'but it isn't so, nohow.'
'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." ~Tweedledum and Tweedledee discussing the finer points of logic
'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." ~Tweedledum and Tweedledee discussing the finer points of logic
