Posted: May 17, 2012 3:33 pm
amkerman wrote:Simply stunning @[color=#CC0000][b]shrunk.[/b][/color] The arguments are analogous. That you can't see the contradiction in your first premise is simply due to language. You conditioned God's existence as being that which cannot exist, namely, a square circle. That you then go on to explicitly state that square circles can't exist might be confusing you.
Umm, no. There is nothing in premise 1 that states whether or not a square circle can exist, only that if God exists, he must be one.
Are you under the impression that the validity of an argument depends on whether its premises are supported by evidence from outside the argument? Perhaps that's your problem. For instance, is this argument valid?
- If the number 3 is integrally divisible by 2, it is an even number.
The number 3 is integrally divisible by 2.
Therefore the number 3 is an even number.