Thank you for taking your time to talk to me!Escapist forums is really amazing compared to elsewhere TBH.On to business.Asita said:Not to say you can't have a belief in a higher power or anything like that, but that logic is flawed. If everything has a cause, that too must hold true for whatever is attributed as god. If god does not have a cause, then the logic collapses as if that god does not require a cause, then it logically follows that not everything needs a cause, thereby invalidating the argument. And if you have one exception, the door is open for more to exist. To claim otherwise invokes the special pleading fallacy to work, saying that for reasons not part of the initial logic one chosen concept is exempt from it. Put a different way, it's the same dillema as the Chicken and the Egg. If you need an egg to make a chicken and a chicken to make an egg, you end up with a paradox where the argument's own definitions render the question of 'which came first' unanswerable.FriedRicer said:You know you have two hands.You know so empirically.You can make a deductive argument and arrive to the conclusion of two hands.Unless we are doing the "everything is a belief" thing you don't believe you have to hands,you think so.Know so.I think there is a god based on an argument of logic.In my previous post,where did you see what would amount to a belief?The concept of god need not be supernatural.In fact the only attributes that are consistent in a definition of god(mostly) is creation and/or an independence from the influences of this universe.
If everything has a cause and an effect.
What caused the first effect(s)?
The substance(whatever it is) is what I say a true god is.This is because its defining trait would be pure creation.
This is not a belief based on some book or dream.
It is based on how we know the way this world works.
This cannot go in reverse forever (can it?):
Cause>Effect>Repeat>Repeat>Forever/End(?)
It can be argued by its points based on itself.
Just because an argument cannot prove its subjects immediately,doesn't mean it is a belief or that the person who makes the argument is in a state of belief.This is why I brought up Leibniz.From what my Prof told me, he used logic to make a case that the atom was destruct-able.The technology to show so was after his time.Did he have beliefs?
Again, not to say you can't have your beliefs, just that that is not a great supporting argument.
I don't believe in a "higher power".
I understand your points.There CAN be more then one exception.There can (potentially) be many objects with that attribute.My logic would be flawed if I said there existed only one exception for no apparent reason(special-pleading/just wanting a god).I thought it was implied that the "god-thing" being exempt from the rule was one of its defining traits.But that was why some form of creation was added to the definition(those 2 traits being consistent with "god").Semantics really is your issue ,not logic.
So my definition is a chicken from no egg in lay-mans terms.
One that is independent from the rules of cause and effect that we observe on earth.
It actually is a good supporting argument(in meta).
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