From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun Jan 27 2002 - 23:03:57 MST
On 27 Jan 2002 at 21:35, Raber Scott wrote:
> I've been a member of CoV for a little over a year,
> and after reading much of the subject matter, I've
> begun to wonder if the majority of people have allowed
> all these memes and terrible examples of relgious
> experience to jade and closet their spirituality (ad
> hominem, anybody?) Naturally, I am not assuming that
> the greater numbers are atheists (although the
> non-belief in itself is an acknowledgement of
> no-thing), but am just curious as to whether or not
> these soldiers of reason follow any path to the
> divine. It goes without saying that logic cannot
> define everything -- if it could, we would all be
> gods.
>
Please provide me with the proof that if logic could define everything
that all people would be deities. It seems to me to be a classic case of
disjunction; IOW, the "then" does not follow from the "if".
In fact, however, logic defines nothing. It starts with a class of relations
and a class of operations, and then operations are performed on some
relational statements to convert them into others. Definitions are to be
found in dictionaries. Although the four laws of thought (a or not-a, not
both a and not-a, if a then a, if not-a then not-a) apply to everything in
general, they define nothing in particular.
>
> Scott
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