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apeiron
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Well show where I misrepresented your arguments then. Do something apart from bubbling from a watery grave.
apeiron said:Well show where I misrepresented your arguments then. Do something apart from bubbling from a watery grave.
apeiron said:Please get it right at some stage. What I championed was limits. Omni- was misleading I said. And modern physics is all about discovering limits too scale.
Hippasos said:1) So for omnipotent every rock is the same whatever it weights.
2) If omnipotent (or its omnipotent similar) once should decide it should not to be omnipotent any more, or to be non-existent, it wouldn't be omnipotent never again -:)
Limits aren't relevant to the discussion, because omnipotence is not a limit issue. Its about being limitless. Omnipotence has no basis in observation, it is fantasy.apeiron said:Fine. So you say omni is nonsense. I say its limits. And I challenged you to refute the observational evidence we have for limits.
C would be a limit, which omni is not.Are you saying c is nonsense or something?
JoeDawg said:Limits aren't relevant to the discussion, because omnipotence is not a limit issue. Its about being limitless. Omnipotence has no basis in observation, it is fantasy.
JoeDawg said:You can't be this dense, so I'm going to guess, its just insufferable arrogance. Or maybe you're drunk.
LOLapeiron said:But sorry if this went right over your head and made you grumpy.
JoeDawg said:I disagree with your assessment, if that hurts your ego or feelings, too bad.
I think you are wrong. Get over it.
Karl G. said:Suppose an omnipotent being exists. If it does, it would be able to do anything (by definition!). Therefore, it would be able to produce a rock it couldn't lift. Therefore, it wouldn't be able to do anything it wants, therefore it wouldn't be omnipotent. What do you think?
WaveJumper said:Putting forward human logic as something all-powerful is typical of certain doctrines. Unfortunately they are wrong. Human logic is very likely nothing special and their "insights" into the nature of a hypothetical all-powerful God, is simply a reflection of their own delusion of understanding everything there is to understand about existence and reality.
kote said:I think it's less than that. In this case we just have an inconsistent concept.
A rock is by definition finite. A rock not liftable by God would have to be infinite.
Allow me to disagree that your logic is the greatest thing that could ever exist. I don't share that sentiment, at all. I am sure a caveman would disagree that man could go to the Moon. Your current knowledge of the universe is definitely NOT all there is to know. Period.You have proposed an object that is both finite and infinite - a logical contradiction. The question is as meaningless as "is the number 3 happy or sad."
I'm sorry guys, but this is logic 101 - simple absurdity. Asking the question doesn't break logic. It just makes you an idiot. It's impossible to disprove logic, because to do so would require logical argument.
Is that supposed to be a proof that human logic is all powerful?An assumption of logic is also required for any math or science to be intelligible. It's required for any knowledge or argument, period, to be intelligible.
But if you deny that 1+1=2 is a necessary truth... well then I guess I can't argue with you, can I?
No one ever said logic tells you anything about the universe. I don't see why you insist on bringing synthetic propositions into a discussion of analytic propositional logic.WaveJumper said:Allow me to disagree that your logic is the greatest thing that could ever exist. I don't share that sentiment, at all. I am sure a caveman would disagree that man could go to the Moon. Your current knowledge of the universe is definitely NOT all there is to know. Period.
Are you serious? Is this guy serious?WaveJumper said:How many electrons are there when a single electron...
How many electrons are there when a single electron...
kote said:Are you serious? Is this guy serious?
No. An electron, as a specific type of object, must contain as essential the essential properties of the object class. An object is defined as a continuous region of extension. For something to be in more than one place at the same time, it cannot have continuous extension. It is therefore not the same object but two or more distinct objects. No single object can exist in two or more places at once. I could write this as a formal proof, but I am aware that such proofs hold no weight with you.WaveJumper said:"Can an electron be in 2 or more places at once?"
Double slit experiment with single electrons. / of argument.kote said:To be fair, I'll answer your original question.
No. An electron, as a specific type of object, must contain as essential the essential properties of the object class. An object is defined as a continuous region of extension. For something to be in more than one place at the same time, it cannot have continuous extension. It is therefore not the same object, but two or more distinct objects.
kote said:Of course, you can redefine electron or object as you wish, in which case you will either get a definite answer, or you will strip your question of meaning. "Yes," "no," or "you idiot, numbers don't have feelings." Those are your options. They all fit very nicely into our logical system and are in no way contradictory or paradoxical.
The fact that you can't come up with a self-consistent definition of an election is not evidence that logic is impossible. It's evidence that you don't have a well defined idea of an election.
apeiron said:And so you can only get so far if the output of your particular brand of logic seems in obvious conflict with some pretty solid observational evidence.
kote said:The supposedly well-defined electron you just formalized in QM isn't defined at all without an assumption of the validity of math, which requires an assumption of the validity of logic.
Any argument from observation that makes a claim about logic is circular and necessarily assumes logic.
"Can an electron be in 2 or more places at once?"