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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Intolerance, or logic
If a statement is the sort of statement that can be true or false, then it cannot be both true and false. Hence, "God exists" and "God does not exist" cannot both be true. That's not intolerance, its logic.
I think people who say it's intolerant are talking of subjective truth. Which is a useful concept I guess, but I'd prefer to call it something less confusing.
God doesn't bow to your narrow intolerant bivalence! We must use tetravalent logic in all statements involving God (so statements can be true, false, both, or neither). Logically speaking, there is no good reason to favor bivalence over tetravalence, but God's tolerance suggests we opt for the inclusive tetravalence.
Let A="I am happy that the US economic collapse happened when it did."
A&~A
Bam. Reductio of the assumption of bivalence, the law of excluded middle, and the narrowly intolerant law of noncontradiction.
It is good for the tiger to eat the antelope. It is good for the antelope to escape the tiger. It is bad for the tiger to go hungry and bad for the antelope to be dinner.
Let's go beyond duality.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing or rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. ~Rumi
Space exists not as a thing which is existent but as an absence of existent things. In this way God could have both an existence and also a non existence. Not only space is like this but also silence, darkness, stillness.
I think people who say it's intolerant are talking of subjective truth. Which is a useful concept I guess, but I'd prefer to call it something less confusing.
ReplyDeleteLOL. The fact that you had to write this tells something sad about the people.
ReplyDeleteGod doesn't bow to your narrow intolerant bivalence! We must use tetravalent logic in all statements involving God (so statements can be true, false, both, or neither). Logically speaking, there is no good reason to favor bivalence over tetravalence, but God's tolerance suggests we opt for the inclusive tetravalence.
ReplyDeleteLet A="I am happy that the US economic collapse happened when it did."
A&~A
Bam. Reductio of the assumption of bivalence, the law of excluded middle, and the narrowly intolerant law of noncontradiction.
Expand your mind, you narrow-headed westerners!
"Let A="I am happy that the US economic collapse happened when it did."
ReplyDeleteA&~A
Bam. Reductio of the assumption of bivalence, the law of excluded middle, and the narrowly intolerant law of noncontradiction."
How does this show anything?
Logic is an intolerant thing. Who says I can't be a Calvinist and not a Calvinist if I want to?
ReplyDeleteSteven: Well, you could be a four-point Calvinist. Then both Calvinists and Arminians will disown you.
ReplyDeleteIt is good for the tiger to eat the antelope. It is good for the antelope to escape the tiger. It is bad for the tiger to go hungry and bad for the antelope to be dinner.
ReplyDeleteLet's go beyond duality.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing or rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. ~Rumi
Space exists not as a thing which is existent but as an absence of existent things. In this way God could have both an existence and also a non existence.
ReplyDeleteNot only space is like this but also silence, darkness, stillness.