RE: How far reaching are God's powers?
November 12, 2020 at 7:04 pm
(This post was last modified: November 12, 2020 at 7:12 pm by Sal.)
'necessary' is one of those words, used like a fox hole, when being confronted with any form of critique, if you really examine the etymology of the word.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/necessary
Although not always, it is used as a weasel word a lot of the times by theists, most of the apologists use 'necessary' in their semantic arguments for their god image. But it's so bloody effective, quite frankly IMO, exactly because it isn't strictly speaking a weasel word.
Only place I see 'necessary' used accurately is with concise logical language. Apologists, unsurprisingly, hijack it in their semantic bullshit arguments.
(November 12, 2020 at 7:02 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(bold mine)(November 12, 2020 at 6:36 pm)Sal Wrote: I try, implicit bias/beliefs notwithstanding, to have exactly zero (0) unfalsifiable beliefs,
I am curious then, is the assertion "All beliefs should be falsifiable" falsifiable or not?
Yes, of course. It has to be internally consistent for it to be true. That also applies to stupid & annoying fucking deflections and philosophical masturbations of like: "Next week there will be a surprise test." Which gets any, even serious philosophers, a run for their money. Your contention is of that exact flavor, sorry.
(November 12, 2020 at 7:02 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: If so, can you prove that falsifiability is a necessary condition for the truth of a particular belief. Can't we have, for instance, a true but unfalsifiable belief ?Easy. How would you prove that 'falsifiability' itself is true or false? Test it of course ...
That's your homework ... *coughBurdenOfProofcough*
I get that cough, sometimes, you see.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman