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On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Anyway, my whole point was that the following arguments are invalid and therefore false.
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> Premise 1: I have beliefs about x.
> Premise 2: I believe that my beliefs about x are universal.
> Premise 3: My beliefs about x can only be universal if there is some guarantor that they are universal.
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> Conclusion: There is a guarantor that my beliefs about x are universal. (And this we all call God.)
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> (Note that this is also Plato's argument [or rather one of them] for the existence of Forms.)
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> Premise 1a: I have universal beliefs.
> Premise 2a: If I have universal beliefs, there is a guarantor that I have universal beliefs.
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> Conclusion 1: There is a guarantor that I have universal beliefs.
> Premise 1b: If there is a guarantor that I have universal beliefs, then I have universal beliefs.
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> Conclusion 2: I have universal beliefs.
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> This last one is called "begging the question."
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