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Argument from Absoluteness
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RE: Argument from Absoluteness



@max-greece:

The problem with your argument is that one of the premises rests on an inductive inference. A deductive proof argument cannot rest on an inductive inference because it makes the deduction invalid because inductive inferences do not have a 'necessary' truth value. It's like oil and water, you can't mix the two, inductive and deductive inferences. It could be reformatted to be a valid deductive argument, but doing so would require restating the conclusion to be that God probably does not exist, with the probability governed by the inductive inference. Unfortunately, there's no deterministic way to set those probabilities, and so the conclusion becomes highly controversial, and justifiably so.

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Argument from Absoluteness - by MindForgedManacle - January 20, 2014 at 2:01 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by bennyboy - January 20, 2014 at 3:17 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by MindForgedManacle - January 20, 2014 at 3:26 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by Angrboda - January 20, 2014 at 4:36 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by bennyboy - January 20, 2014 at 5:54 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by MindForgedManacle - January 20, 2014 at 10:09 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by bennyboy - January 21, 2014 at 12:03 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by Angrboda - January 21, 2014 at 9:20 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by MindForgedManacle - January 21, 2014 at 10:48 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by bennyboy - January 22, 2014 at 8:18 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by Anomalocaris - January 22, 2014 at 10:51 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by Angrboda - January 20, 2014 at 1:49 pm
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by max-greece - January 22, 2014 at 9:17 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by Angrboda - January 22, 2014 at 2:30 pm
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by max-greece - January 23, 2014 at 2:12 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by Angrboda - January 23, 2014 at 2:28 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by max-greece - January 23, 2014 at 2:43 am



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