@Neo-Scholastic
Since it is not readily apparent that the Tooth Fairy and Santa are not ‘immaterial things that transcend the Universe’, it seems that you would need to demonstrate that they are before the comparison under discussion can be declared a category error. I think such a demonstration would be extraordinarily difficult, however.
I’m perfectly happy to agree that comparing God to a suitcase, a tree, or a plate of underdone veal is such an error, if that helps.
Boru
Quote:Belecqua and I were focusing on the category error of comparing material things within the universe to immaterial things that transcend the universe
Since it is not readily apparent that the Tooth Fairy and Santa are not ‘immaterial things that transcend the Universe’, it seems that you would need to demonstrate that they are before the comparison under discussion can be declared a category error. I think such a demonstration would be extraordinarily difficult, however.
I’m perfectly happy to agree that comparing God to a suitcase, a tree, or a plate of underdone veal is such an error, if that helps.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
