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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...260.) And again we say: It is absurd for a person who announces his intention of " defying reason " with all the hardihood of a moral Ajax, to attempt to reason with the public and to show persuasive reasons for saying, " I believe though it is impossible." Deferring for a moment the real consideration of these " difficulties," let us here confine our attention to one point only, namely, the reason alleged by Mr. Mallock for referring in this place to the Freedom of the Will. This reason is that as it is a fact of consciousness, and yet unintelligible, unintelligibility constitutes no reason for rejecting credence in any alleged fact whatever. The syllogism runs thus: The Freedom of the Will is unintelligible. (=y). The moral attributes of God are unintelligible. (=?) But the Freedom of the Will is a fact of human consciousness. (=-). Therefore the moral attributes of God as described in theology are facts external to human consciousness. (=) Here is a double fallacy. In the first place the middle term is not distributed, and it does not follow, though any particular number of facts were unintelligible, that conversely, anything unintelligible could be assumed to be a matter of fact; and in the second place the term " fact" is used ambiguously, and in a way to imply either an internal fact of consciousness, or a fact of the world external to consciousness. If any conclusion could be drawn from this reasoning it would be that the theological assertion of the moral attributes of God was exclusively a fact of human consciousness. This is indeed the only correct conclusion, but it is categorically opposed to the external reality, which we are told at the outset, is to be established. But, as seen by the rules of logic, no conclusion could be...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151288820
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 64
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151288829
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 132 gr


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