Posted: Aug 12, 2017 4:21 pm
Wortfish wrote:Thommo wrote:
From what you've said so far, you could argue that:-
- Only Christians are complete morons, and
- Christians are not complete morons
Are compatible statements, which is basically the definition of nonsense.
No. That is not a fair representation. This is how I framed it:
- Only atheists eat their own.
- All humans can eat their own.
The second statement leaves the possibility that someone, other than an atheist, could have eaten or will eat a baby.
Well, no, that's not how you framed it. I'm surprised you forgot so fast.
This is:-
Wortfish wrote:1. Only cats eat their own offspring.
2. Atheists can eat their own babies
You then defended this by saying the first is a provisional belief and therefore not incompatible with the second statement, which is (although distinguished in no way from the first) instead a statement of possible fact and not a statement of belief. Putting aside the fundamentally stupid way it's framed for a moment, you can take that reasoning and apply it to the two statements:-
- Only Christians are complete morons, and
- Christians are not complete morons
(which, incidentally, are not a representation of what you said at all)
And conclude the statements are equally "compatible". This is a classic example of what is known in technical circles as "chatting complete bollocks".