On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> God might be a sort of person, but for them he is responsible for all the > being, and is not part of the being. > AVFOB (Amorphous Vague Fog Of Bafflegab). > In Plotinus, both God and Matter do "not exist" > If true then the word "exist" should be retired from the English language as it will never be needed to describe anything. > in some sense > Nonsense perhaps. > Then I let you debate with yourself on the two questions: 1) is > arithmetical truth a being? > No. > > 2) can arithmetical truth appears as some being from the points of view > of universal machines? > Certainly. Anything could appear as anything to the thinking machine if it were malfunctioning or had inputted the digital equivalent of LSD. > "One" is a nickname chosen by Plotinus for the Platonist-Parmenidian > abstract conception of God. > I don't care if you represent the idea with the letters "G-o-d" or "O-n-e" or any other 3 character ASCII sequence, the first quality the supreme being needs to have is to be a being; and that means an objective thing that entails internal subjectivity. If you insist that God = AVFOB then I won't fight you, I can't, it would be like wrestling with a fog bank. John K Clark -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
