(April 16, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I don't agree. It's equivalent to "weird things happen if-and-only-if god exists", and I fail to see the distinction between that and 'weird things happen if god exists".'Only if' and 'if & only if' = 'because'. How's this for an example:
- If there's one possible reason, it's not an 'if'
- Only if there's one possible reason is it not an 'if'
See how the construction of the second statement makes it an assumption?
Quote:Honestly, I don't get the controversy. Heywood has admitted that the premise is false and the argument unsound, which makes it pretty much irrelevant - whether it's fallacious or not.Yeah, fair enough. It's not controversial, I was feeling pedantic. It did give me the chance to state that hypothesis though. I feel quite proud of that one

Sum ergo sum