On 4 February 2014 18:45, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: No a reductio ad absurdum is showing that the premises lead to conclusions > that are absurd, i.e. that it is more likely the premises are false than > that the conclusion is true. This is somewhat a matter of judgement as to > what counts as absurd. A contradiction though is necessarily fatal.
Forgive the imprecision. But either way (as Craig has agreed) it is a rejection of the premise rather than using it to show an absurd conclusion. David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
