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The Ill-Logic, it Burns

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The Ill-Logic, it Burns
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RE: The Ill-Logic, it Burns
March 29, 2014 at 5:20 am
Your YouTubist has gotten nearly everything wrong.

1. Ockham's Razor (I prefer the term 'principle of parsimony') had to do with bias only in the sense that Ockham did not differ all that much from his fellow Franciscans in that he wanted to construct a way to make God necessary. Whether he intended it to be used as a knowledge-gathering tool is moot.


2. Ockham believed in God precisely because he could NOT see him. He viewed God as ontologically necessary and not amenable to reason and logic.

3. Well, Ockham was mad at the Church, but that was only after the Pope got made at William first.

Boru
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The Ill-Logic, it Burns - by Bob Kelso - March 29, 2014 at 4:57 am
RE: The Ill-Logic, it Burns - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - March 29, 2014 at 5:20 am
RE: The Ill-Logic, it Burns - by Alex K - March 29, 2014 at 7:21 am
RE: The Ill-Logic, it Burns - by Bob Kelso - March 29, 2014 at 8:13 am
RE: The Ill-Logic, it Burns - by sven - March 31, 2014 at 9:44 pm
RE: The Ill-Logic, it Burns - by Minimalist - March 31, 2014 at 9:56 pm
RE: The Ill-Logic, it Burns - by Jackalope - March 31, 2014 at 11:52 pm
RE: The Ill-Logic, it Burns - by Minimalist - April 1, 2014 at 12:47 am

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