RE: What God's justification for eternal torment?
August 21, 2020 at 9:17 am
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2020 at 9:28 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The very problem that a fallacy of composition refers to is that so-and-so doesn't have to be true or false.
That the specific contents of any fallacy of composition can be sound, but that can't guarantee the truth of the conclusion. It can be true that aluminum doesn't fly, but that can't guarantee that a 747 can't fly. What may be true of a or all parts may not be true of the whole (if there is even such a thing as parts and wholes).
As all cosmological arguments begin with some observation of the parts of this universe - hence "cosmological" - and as all cosmological arguments then proceed towards a comment on the whole, all cosmological arguments necessarily reduce the value and confidence of their conclusions by nature of the argumentative form. The argument that the big bang was -the beginning- in the relevant cosmological sense is just such an argument - and as MA described above, rationally, we can't say that we know or have proved this to be the case. It might be, but we can't have confidence that it is, because our observations of the parts may not hold of the whole.
That the specific contents of any fallacy of composition can be sound, but that can't guarantee the truth of the conclusion. It can be true that aluminum doesn't fly, but that can't guarantee that a 747 can't fly. What may be true of a or all parts may not be true of the whole (if there is even such a thing as parts and wholes).
As all cosmological arguments begin with some observation of the parts of this universe - hence "cosmological" - and as all cosmological arguments then proceed towards a comment on the whole, all cosmological arguments necessarily reduce the value and confidence of their conclusions by nature of the argumentative form. The argument that the big bang was -the beginning- in the relevant cosmological sense is just such an argument - and as MA described above, rationally, we can't say that we know or have proved this to be the case. It might be, but we can't have confidence that it is, because our observations of the parts may not hold of the whole.
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