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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.“In history” names a domain of inquiry, not a different species of truth. Historical questions are about past states of the same... -
They are corporations. Corporations are legal fictions created by governments. People are primates of the species Homo Sapiens. Now...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Ignoring a possibility is not eliminating it; it is refusing to test it. Elimination requires showing that the observations are at least...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.It is directly responsive. “Decisive difference between a private conviction and a public warrant” states the criterion at issue. A...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Modern logic separates syntax from semantics. Syntax (the “form”) gives you well-formed formulas and proof rules; semantics gives you...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Sorry. No.” is not an argument. The point at issue is simple: when a writer publicly deploys an origin claim (“not of man … through...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.I’m not claiming a context-free necessity; I’m making a contextual, historical claim about how Paul deploys origin language in...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.That is simply incorrect. In modern logic, “truth” is not a free-floating formality; it is defined semantically by satisfaction in a...
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Scripture tells us authoritatively that God appeared to at least three persons. Abraham gets to meet him in the form of three dudes in...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.From an atheist perspective, the key point is that powerful religious experiences are real to the people who have them, but their...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Define God.What a scientist believes is not what science has detected. Science “detects” by generating testable predictions, measuring signals that...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.“Truth” in logic is not vacuous; it is the semantic notion of a statement being satisfied in a structure. “Entailment” means that in...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.I’m not offering a “possibility”; I’m describing what the letter does on the page. In Gal 1:11–12 Paul states his gospel is “not from...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.That is not what logical entailment is. Entailment is the truth-preserving relation between premises and conclusion: in every admissible...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.You can’t invoke “entailment” and then deny you’re relying on logical necessity. Entailment just is a necessity relation: if your...
