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Proving god with logic?
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RE: Proving god with logic?
(March 21, 2014 at 2:49 pm)tor Wrote: Yeah but he didn't specify all mammalian species or all mammalian creatures.
Exactly! And that is just what makes syllogisms so unreliable. When you look at the two premises isolated from one another, they are absolutely true, but they are using two different understandings of the word "mammal", and the conclusion of a syllogism is completely blind to such linguistic inaccuracies.
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Proving god with logic? - by xr34p3rx - March 21, 2014 at 3:36 am
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Alex K - March 21, 2014 at 5:34 am
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Doubting Thomas - March 21, 2014 at 1:35 pm
Proving god with logic? - by Rampant.A.I. - March 21, 2014 at 1:39 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Neo-Scholastic - March 21, 2014 at 1:55 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by tor - March 21, 2014 at 1:58 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by xr34p3rx - March 21, 2014 at 2:32 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by tor - March 21, 2014 at 2:34 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by xr34p3rx - March 21, 2014 at 2:38 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Modler - March 21, 2014 at 2:48 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by xr34p3rx - March 21, 2014 at 2:52 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Alex K - March 21, 2014 at 5:51 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Minimalist - March 21, 2014 at 5:41 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by ThePinsir - March 21, 2014 at 5:43 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by downbeatplumb - March 21, 2014 at 2:36 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by tor - March 21, 2014 at 2:39 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by xr34p3rx - March 21, 2014 at 2:42 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by tor - March 21, 2014 at 2:49 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Modler - March 21, 2014 at 3:05 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by xr34p3rx - March 21, 2014 at 3:14 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Neo-Scholastic - March 21, 2014 at 3:54 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Modler - March 21, 2014 at 4:39 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by tor - March 21, 2014 at 4:40 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Tonus - March 21, 2014 at 2:54 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by xr34p3rx - March 21, 2014 at 2:56 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Mister Agenda - March 21, 2014 at 4:01 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Simon Moon - March 21, 2014 at 4:20 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by xr34p3rx - March 21, 2014 at 4:21 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Simon Moon - March 21, 2014 at 4:31 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by tor - March 21, 2014 at 4:34 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by tor - March 21, 2014 at 5:45 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by MysticKnight - March 21, 2014 at 6:03 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by tor - March 21, 2014 at 6:10 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Modler - March 21, 2014 at 7:08 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Simon Moon - March 21, 2014 at 7:12 pm
Proving god with logic? - by Rampant.A.I. - March 21, 2014 at 6:50 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by *Deidre* - March 21, 2014 at 7:22 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by MysticKnight - March 21, 2014 at 9:20 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Minimalist - March 21, 2014 at 7:25 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by *Deidre* - March 21, 2014 at 7:28 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by xr34p3rx - March 21, 2014 at 7:49 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by tor - March 21, 2014 at 7:49 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by xr34p3rx - March 21, 2014 at 7:53 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Minimalist - March 21, 2014 at 7:30 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Minimalist - March 21, 2014 at 7:59 pm
Proving god with logic? - by Rampant.A.I. - March 21, 2014 at 8:14 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Hezekiah - March 21, 2014 at 9:27 pm
RE: Proving god with logic? - by Minimalist - March 21, 2014 at 11:08 pm

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