{"id":796,"date":"2008-08-10T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2008\/08\/10\/sye-a-third-atheist-account-of-logic\/"},"modified":"2008-08-10T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T10:29:00","slug":"sye-a-third-atheist-account-of-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2008\/08\/10\/sye-a-third-atheist-account-of-logic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sye &#8211; a third atheist &#8220;account&#8221; of logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we are still talking about whether atheists can &#8220;account&#8221;  for (i.e. justify, allow for, and explain) the laws of logic, here&#8217;s a third possibility outlined in next post.<\/p>\n<p>Quine&#8217;s view is that the laws of nature are not necessary. This is a popular view (more so in the U.S., largely because of Quine&#8217;s influence). Quine considers them very high level empirical propositions. And revisable in the light of experience.<\/p>\n<p>Sye will have to shoot this theory down too, as well as the two I have already presented&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, even when you, Sye, have dealt with these three, there are innumerable other possibilities you must rule out. What you really need is an argument that rules out <span style=\"font-style: italic\">all<\/span> atheist-friendly accounts <span style=\"font-style: italic\">in principle.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we are still talking about whether atheists can &#8220;account&#8221; for (i.e. justify, allow for, and explain) the laws of logic, here&#8217;s a third possibility outlined in next post. Quine&#8217;s view is that the laws of nature are not necessary. This is a popular view (more so in the U.S., largely because of Quine&#8217;s influence). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sinner-ministries-proof-of-the-existence-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}