RE: Worst Arguments For Christianity
January 24, 2015 at 4:31 am
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2015 at 4:51 am by Pizza.)
(January 24, 2015 at 12:41 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Non-physical properties are also easily demonstrated: triangularity, the truth preserving quality of logical propositions, etc. Unless of course you opt for nominalism or conceptualism, both of which crash and burn under the weight of their own paradoxes.Those things you just listed as examples are all causally inert abstractions and mental properties have causal effects. That's a non starter since any analogy between them will be a weak one and would lead to the obviously false conclusion that minds don't cause things.
Quote:You have already done so by saying that your life has meaning and purpose. Please, describe one, just one, physical property of meaning.
(January 23, 2015 at 4:26 am)Pizz-atheist Wrote: However, I don't think "purposes and meanings of life" is a well-enough defined idea to really matter since some people define it to mean goals given to life by humans. Most apologists will define it in such way as to smuggle their conclusion(God exists) into it by defining "meaning" as goal given by God or something like that. So the claim deflates into a trivial tautology.If you don't define your terms clearly we are going to be talking pass enough other. What do you mean by meaning? But this is all a moot point since mind-body dualism has nothing to do with a deity giving meaning to life since human minds can do that.
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