Re: What is wrong with this argument?
From: Mike Oliver (mike_lists_at_verizon.net)
Date: 03/27/05
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Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:48:16 -0600
The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> One could formulate
> it in one of the following manners:
>
> [1] There is One True God that everyone believes in.
>
> (Eg)(Ax)(Gg . (Px => Bxg) . (Ag')(Bxg' => (g=g'))) [+]
>
> This is demonstrably false
Perhaps, but not according to the line of argument
you've taken here, where you attempt (for example)
to demonstrate that Allah and the Christian God are
not the same being, by showing that Muslims and
Christians hold beliefs that would be mutually
incompatible if they *were* the same being.
All that shows is that (if the Christian God is
in fact the same being as Allah) then Christians,
or Muslims, or both, hold some false beliefs.
This is similar to an error committed by many
in sci.logic of identifying an object with
the properties of that object--for example,
when some speak of a proposition being "true
in ZFC".
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