(July 5, 2013 at 3:28 pm)BrotherNeto Wrote:(July 5, 2013 at 3:14 pm)Inigo Wrote: 'If a god and an afterlife exists'. There you go. Now all you have to do is get rid of this silly preconception. I don't see why you need something to be answering us.(July 5, 2013 at 3:14 pm)Inigo Wrote: Answering to us? What are you on about? Have you taken a drug?I know what you said. I corrected myself.
Answering to the concept. That's what I said.
(July 5, 2013 at 3:14 pm)Inigo Wrote: Here's an example. We have the concept of a unicorn. But there isn't anything answering to it, so far as we can tell. Unicorns don't exist. We have the concept of one, but there aren't any out there.I know. Just keep repeating yourself. Blah. Yes, a we have a concept of a unicorn. Never said it was a concept itself, just that we have concepts of things that don't exist.
(July 5, 2013 at 3:14 pm)Inigo Wrote: We have a concept of morality. But if atheism is true there is nothing answering to it.There actually are things answering too it, which many others including myself have explained earlier, and you systematically avoided answering.
So you now see the difference between a concept and the thing conceived? YOu see that having a concept of a thing does not entail that the thing is a concept? YOu see that we have a concept of a unicorn but that it doesn't follow that unicorns exist? You now see that we have a concept of morality but that it doesn't follow that morality exists?
Good, well done. You're coming along splendidly.
But then you assert that there is something answering to our concept of morality. Well, what? And remember, don't say a concept. If you say a concept then you've undone all that splendid work above.