[lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance (Rushdie: Just give me that old-time atheism!)

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Tue May 31 13:40:36 PDT 2005


--- Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:


>
> Humpty Dumpty logic! But even Humpty would find it
> impossible to discover a non-private-language
> meaning to the
> term "exists" that would make "God exists" anything
> but
> a false assertion.
>

Isn't insisting that metaphysical reality adhere to the rules of human language games a bit silly? Man is the measure of all things? As you know, philosophers having been dealing with the incommensurability of a hypothetical transcendent deity with nontranscedent thought since before Plotinus. Maimonides, Aquinas, Meister Eckhardt, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein (the last not directly, but I for one think it's at the core of what he wrote) come to mind immediately.

What's next, goldfish don't have a concept for nuclear fusion, so nuclear fusion doesn't "exist"? :) "Nuclear fusion is said to ripple like the water in many ways.'
:)

Last post, 1 over but they've all been real short!

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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