An argument is a statement or group of statements called premises intended to determine the degree of truth or acceptability of another statement called conclusion. Arguments can be studied from three main perspectives: the logical, the dialectical and the rhetorical perspective.In logic, an argument is usually expressed not in natural language but in a symbolic formal language, and it can be defined as any group of propositions of which one is claimed to follow from the others through deductively valid inferences that preserve truth from the premises to the conclusion. This logical perspective on argument is relevant for scientific fields such as math and computer science. Logic is the study of the forms of reasoning in arguments and the development of standards and criteria to evaluate arguments. Deductive arguments can be valid, and the valid ones can be sound: in a valid argument, premisses necessitate the conclusion, even if one or more of the premises is false and the conclusion is false; in a sound argument, true premises necessitate a true conclusion. Inductive arguments, by contrast, can have different degrees of logical strength: the stronger or more cogent the argument, the greater the probability that the conclusion is true, the weaker the argument, the lesser that probability. The standards for evaluating non-deductive arguments may rest on different or additional criteria than truth—for example, the persuasiveness of so-called "indispensability claims" in transcendental arguments, the quality of hypotheses in retroduction, or even the disclosure of new possibilities for thinking and acting.In dialectics, and also in a more colloquial sense, an argument can be conceived as a social and verbal means of trying to resolve, or at least contend with, a conflict or difference of opinion that has arisen or exists between two or more parties. For the rhetorical perspective, the argument is constitutively linked with the context, in particular with the time and place in which the argument is located. From this perspective, the argument is evaluated not just by two parties (as in a dialectical approach) but also by an audience. In both dialectic and rhetoric, arguments are used not through a formal but through natural language. Since classical antiquity, philosophers and rhetoricians have developed lists of argument types in which premises and conclusions are connected in informal and defeasible ways.
The above translation is that of William Newcome's New Testament 1796
The use of the Divine Name in the New Testament may have stronger support than many may admit.
Historical: We know that all of the earliest extant manuscripts of the OT contained some for of the Divine Name. We also know...
We now live in an era where AI is developing so fast that it has spun some controversy. One of the controversy is the usage of ChatGPT by students to create writing materials which is considered "cheating" by a lot of people.
Argument Against using ChatGPT
The use of ChatGPT on school...
Q:
what is the strongest argument against the existence of god
(Answer by GPT-4)
The strongest argument against the existence of God is arguably the Problem of Evil. It states that the existence of widespread suffering and evil in the world is incompatible with an all-powerful, all-knowing, and...
Q:
What is the strongest argument for the existence of god
(Answer by GPT-4)
The strongest argument for the existence of God is arguably the Cosmological Argument, specifically the Kalam Cosmological Argument. It posits that everything that begins to exist has a cause, the universe began to...
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.
However.. we are not here for the maths and sciences. What we will be talking about is the Pascal's Wager.
PASCAL'S WAGER
If God does not exist, such a person will have only a finite loss (some...
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here: https://phcorner.net/threads/551647/#post-9122849
Book Author: Armin Navabi
• "Science can't explain the complexity and order of life; God must have designed it to be this way."
• "God's existence is proven by scripture."
• "There's no evidence that God doesn't...