RE: Attn: Theists - What would it take to prove you wrong?
August 27, 2013 at 6:39 pm
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2013 at 6:40 pm by Angrboda.)
(August 27, 2013 at 6:14 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote:(August 27, 2013 at 6:12 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Some of us have the ability to reason. You got bit on the ass by the Law of Non-contradiction a few posts ago.
Contradiction is a part of Gods nature yes.
Wikipedia Wrote:The principle of explosion, (Latin: ex falso quodlibet or ex contradictione sequitur quodlibet, "from a contradiction, anything follows") or the principle of Pseudo-Scotus, is the law of classical logic, intuitionistic logic and similar logical systems, according to which any statement can be proven from a contradiction. That is, once a contradiction has been asserted, any proposition (or its negation) can be inferred from it.
As a demonstration of the principle, consider two contradictory statements - “All lemons are yellow” and "Not all lemons are yellow", and suppose (for the sake of argument) that both are simultaneously true. If that is the case, anything can be proven, e.g. "Santa Claus exists", by using the following argument:
1) We know that "All lemons are yellow" as it is defined to be true.
2) Therefore the statement that (“All lemons are yellow" OR "Santa Claus exists”) must also be true, since the first part is true.
3) However, if "Not all lemons are yellow" (and this is also defined to be true), Santa Claus must exist — otherwise statement 2 would be false [note 1]. It has thus been "proven" that Santa Claus both exists and does not exist, and the same could be applied to any assertion.
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In other words, from assuming contradiction, nonsense follows.
Congratulations. You've just proven that God doesn't exist. The truth of the statement "There is no God" follows logically from a contradiction.
[note 1] This is via disjunctive syllogism, aka modus tollendo ponens. (See: )