Re: Peterson's Death Sentence

From: Parse Tree (account_at_domain.extension)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:10:15 GMT

John Woodgate wrote:
> I read in sci.electronics.design that Parse Tree
> <account@domain.extension> wrote (in <pMyJd.7746$ju.1113@news.easynews.c
> om>) about 'Peterson's Death Sentence', on Tue, 25 Jan 2005:
>
>
>>None of these comments could in any way alter the fact that God is
>>logically impossible, and therefore logically proven to not exist.
>
> All your proof says is that a universal creator cannot be bound by rules
> of logic. It isn't a non-existence proof.

Actually, that's exactly what it is. If something cannot exist in logic,
then it logically does not exist.

Proof by contradiction is very common in logic and mathematics.

> There are games of tick-tack-toe (see, I can write in American!) that,
> when analysed logically, result in the need to put both an O and an X in
> the centre square to finish the game, and this is clearly impossible
> according to the rules. But that doesn't mean that tick-tack-toe doesn't
> exist!

I think this whole segment was meaningless, and I'd like for you to
provide such an example of tic-tac-toe.

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