[lbo-talk] The misuse of political movements for essentially religious ends

Carl G. Estabrook galliher at illinois.edu
Thu Dec 24 18:01:17 PST 2015


Surely you’re not a nominalist. Alas for Herakleitos’ steerage...


> On Dec 24, 2015, at 7:55 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 24, 2015, at 8:28 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
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>> For “God,” as an existent in the universe (i.e., God plus the universe make two things), this is probably true.
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>> But not for ‘God’ as the label we put on the answer to the question (which we do not know), “Why is there anything, instead of nothing?”
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> Then it's a placeholder, and should be written "god," not "God," which as a proper noun must purport to refer to some named entity.
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> Shane Mage
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> "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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