But in fact God does exist. — Bartricks
And I can prove it to all who undertake to reason ruthlessly. — Bartricks
"None of these have to do with theism or atheism."
Yes they do. They are Existential analogies to highlight your flawed logic.
They are important questions that have puzzled philosophers throughout the years. And no one has yet answered those.
So it begs the question, if Atheism can't answer those deep, pragmatic questions of existence, how can it prove that God doesn't exist?
A pretty simple point, no? — 3017amen
'God' denotes a person — Bartricks
That argument is valid and its assumptions seem, to me anyway, to be beyond question — Bartricks
For an argument to be valid, it ought to be valid to all and any - otherwise we're no longer engaging in a debate, but a matter of personal conviction. — Wayfarer
Reconciliation with mortality would mean perceiving it, in the context of understanding everything that it represents, as nonetheless representing a meaningful as opposed to merely an accidental or logically inevitable conclusion of life. — Robert Lockhart
1. There are existing prescriptions of reason
2. Any existing prescription is the prescription of an existing person, a subject, a mind (I use those terms interchangeably).
3. Therefore, the existing prescriptions of reason are prescriptions of an existing person, a subject, a mind.
4. The prescriptions of reason are not prescriptions of mine, or yours,or any of ours
5. Therefore, the existing prescriptions of reason are prescriptions ofan existing person who is not any of us. — Bartricks
But a certain sort of person - one who is fundamentally opposed to philosophy proper and just treats it as kind of self-indulgent exercise in self-expression - thinks otherwise. — Bartricks
an existing person, a subject, a mind (I use those terms interchangeably). — Bartricks
Seems to me that you tar a lot of people with that brush. — Wayfarer
I can't see any compelling grounds, — Wayfarer
that's because you don't recognise a valid argument when you see one. — Bartricks
Arguing against logic using logic will inevitably lead to the equivalent of saying "this sentence is a lie." — Artemis
1. There are existing prescriptions of reason
2. Any existing prescription is the prescription of an existing person, a subject, a mind (I use those terms interchangeably). — Bartricks
that's because you don't recognise a valid argument when you see one. — Bartricks
All such prescriptions have originated from someone — Wayfarer
it is in virtue of having minds that we can issue prescriptions. And what enables us to develop a discourse in which we are able to express our preferences to one another is precisely that we all have the language of reason to appeal to. — Bartricks
You know, using reason to figure out what's true. — Bartricks
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