Posted: Jan 25, 2012 7:03 pm
proudfootz wrote:Still no valid argument against Carrier's description about how his map fits the territory?
Nope, 'cause he don't offer one. There's no inherent numerical value to questions like "what does 'the Lord's brother' mean?" One has to be assigned. It's telling that Carrier's example is a statistical question (the likelihood of Jerusalem having a public library).
Formula only work with what you put in, and that's a judgment call. Claiming that abstract systems transfer to empiricism is just the ontological arguments rehashed.