Sabri Oncu wrote,
Um, as soon as we can figure out whether
God does or does not exist...
Ian
My dear Ian,
This problem is not that difficult. I solved it when I was 14. I
realized that there was no difference between believing in the
existence or non-existence of God.
Sabri has
G'day Tom'n'Sabri,
Sabri has framed the issue correctly. Both are beliefs. For the same
reason
as Sabri, I believe in God but not in a God or gods. The distinction
is
crucial. There IS a difference between believing in God and believing
in a
God or the God. God is a unique part of speech
Rob wrote,
To avoid confusion, though, I'd not call it God
-snip-
The famous last sentence of the Tractatus - What we cannot speak about
we must pass over in silence
This suggests to me that as much as I sympathize with the aim of avoiding
confusion, confusion cannot be avoided. That
- Original Message -
From: Tom Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In fact, one might say that
the linguistic function of God is precisely to stand as other to all
the
common parts of speech and thus to remind us of the incompleteness,
the
inadequacy of any conceivable utterance. God is the
, 2002 8:24 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:23057] Re: On the necessity of socialism and grammar
Sabri Oncu wrote,
Um, as soon as we can figure out whether
God does or does not exist...
Ian
My dear Ian,
This problem is not that difficult. I solved it when I was 14. I
realized
