ext_50257 ([identity profile] nlj21.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] nameandnature 2005-02-09 12:51 pm (UTC)

Re: This year's CICCU Main Event - DIRECTION

Yes, of course. So to go back to the original point of the question.

If we are reasoning in a non-Euclidian system, where a square and circle are not mutually exclusive, the question "Can God make a square circle?" is meaningful.

If we are reasoning in a Euclidean system, the question "Can God make a square circle?" is meaningless.

If we are reasoning in a system with an omnipotent deity, (which we need to be doing to show a contradiction in such a system), the phrase "a rock so big God can't lift" is similarly meaningless.


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