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RE: Ontology of God--Theological Noncognitivist View
January 27, 2010 at 8:18 am
EvF, you know that example of the law of gravity you gave a couple of weeks ago; throw a ball up and it comes back down, throw it a million times more and one of those times it could do anything . . .
Does your example of this include other things which aren't meant to change either? Can it be applied to say opening a bible to a certain page any number of times and one of those times might there be a pop up book or some other difference in the content?**
**clearly not in the literal sense, I have more reasoning capacity than that; I mean with the analogy of truth and givens, etc.
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RE: Ontology of God--Theological Noncognitivist View
January 27, 2010 at 10:35 am
I don't remember giving that example a few weeks ago....
If I did at all talk about something like that it seems like a year ago when I was new to the forums.
Are you referring to like David Hume's principles involving cause and effect? About how just because so far they have been observed to be consistent doesn't mean that in the future there will never be exceptions.
I will discuss this more but I need to get ready to go out for a walk with my bro and sis now, cya.
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RE: Ontology of God--Theological Noncognitivist View
January 27, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Truthworthy,
I believe that was Adrian who brought up that example. It was used to express a scientific principle that past experience does not dictate future results. Well, that was how I interpreted it.
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RE: Ontology of God--Theological Noncognitivist View
January 27, 2010 at 1:03 pm
I think it was Chatpilot, and Adrian corrected him actually. But I'm too lazy to check.
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RE: Ontology of God--Theological Noncognitivist View
January 27, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Ok so according to the future not being governed by the "past" (lol) I can reopen a book at any page and it's possible that something will be different which couldn't be explained besides by memory lapse or something.
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RE: Ontology of God--Theological Noncognitivist View
January 27, 2010 at 7:22 pm
You've got mud on your face . . .
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