RE: Terrible Atheist Argument #1
December 5, 2013 at 5:08 pm
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2013 at 5:10 pm by MindForgedManacle.)
Well, with me 'knows something about this' is more like 'has a fuzzy recollection of something like this, maybe'. :p A philosophy-centric forum may generate better informed folk on this topic. I recommend this one: http://onlinephilosophyclub.com/forums, since I go there every once in a while.
Anyhow, it isn't a flaw with modal logic per se, just in a particular application of it. As I said in my last post, it can't be assumed as metaphysically possible as the basis of a premise alone. That's why people have tried to prepend supporting arguments for the first premise. Logical systems are made to be used certain ways, and transgressing the intentions of their usages will likely make issues like these inevitably crop up.
Anyhow, it isn't a flaw with modal logic per se, just in a particular application of it. As I said in my last post, it can't be assumed as metaphysically possible as the basis of a premise alone. That's why people have tried to prepend supporting arguments for the first premise. Logical systems are made to be used certain ways, and transgressing the intentions of their usages will likely make issues like these inevitably crop up.
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