{"id":808,"date":"2008-08-04T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2008\/08\/04\/sye-nowhere-to-run-to-baby\/"},"modified":"2008-08-04T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T07:39:00","slug":"sye-nowhere-to-run-to-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2008\/08\/04\/sye-nowhere-to-run-to-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Sye &#8211; nowhere to run to, baby."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYE RESPONDS TO MY PRECEEDING POST:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">@ Stephen,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Alright, how about we go this way. Since you, and perhaps many of your cohorts are philosphically trained, why don&#8217;t you show me how it&#8217;s done. It would appear that your biggest problem with my proof is that you feel that the argument I offer &#8220;The impossibility of the contrary,&#8221; for the truth of my premise that &#8220;God is the necessary precondition for intelligibiliy,&#8221; is not, in fact, an argument.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Alright in the format you are requesting of me:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">premise 1<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic\">premise 2<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic\">premise 3<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic\">(&#8230;)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic\">premise n<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Therefore: conclusion<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">please prove to me, that &#8220;The impossibility of the contrary&#8221; is not an argument.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Cheers,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Sye<\/span><\/p>\n<p>MY RESPONSE TO SYE:<\/p>\n<p>Sye<\/p>\n<p>You misunderstand.<\/p>\n<p>I am not saying you don&#8217;t have an argument. Maybe you do (though of course I don&#8217;t think you have a good argument &#8211; for there are not the resources on the page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proofthatgodexists.org\/proof.php\">behind the continue button<\/a> to support your conclusion).<\/p>\n<p>I am saying I cannot figure out what the argument is supposed to be. [I can&#8217;t prove it&#8217;s not a good argument till I know what the argument is supposed to be, can I?] How do you arrange <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proofthatgodexists.org\/proof.php\">what&#8217;s behind the continue button<\/a> into an argument? How does it run, premises to conclusion?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The impossibility of the contrary&#8221; is not an argument (that sequence of words presents no premise and conclusion), but rather the <span style=\"font-style: italic\">title<\/span> you have given to an argument.<\/p>\n<p>But what <span style=\"font-style: italic\">is<\/span> that argument?<\/p>\n<p>You say it&#8217;s there on the page behind the continue button. Why then not set it out for us as premise(s) and conclusion?<\/p>\n<p>Why not??<\/p>\n<p>Why would you refuse this very simple request??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYE RESPONDS TO MY PRECEEDING POST: @ Stephen, Alright, how about we go this way. Since you, and perhaps many of your cohorts are philosphically trained, why don&#8217;t you show me how it&#8217;s done. It would appear that your biggest problem with my proof is that you feel that the argument I offer &#8220;The impossibility [&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-808","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\/808","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=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}