tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post8224034449779792581..comments2023-10-14T09:40:06.690-05:00Comments on Jean Kazez: No Paradoxes for the Gods?Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-90555169359805968082010-06-01T09:44:21.056-05:002010-06-01T09:44:21.056-05:00I'm trying to make sense of this in everyday, ...I'm trying to make sense of this in everyday, psychological terms, if that is permissable.<br />For instance, you undoubtedly are certain that the message or thesis of Animalkind is true, that the book as a totality is true, but you probably would admit that the book may contain some factual errors, perhaps because some of the scientific research which you employ in the book may becomes. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-39316888573249078182010-06-01T08:40:04.737-05:002010-06-01T08:40:04.737-05:00The way you're describing yourself doesn't...The way you're describing yourself doesn't generate a contradiction. The paradox gets going because we can see the author as rational in believing everything in his book, but also as rational in believing there must be errors. So he is rational in believing a contradiction. But we also believe it's irrational to believe a contradiction. So our take on the author is contradictory. Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-92056298644326778482010-06-01T07:52:28.113-05:002010-06-01T07:52:28.113-05:00My book has a central thesis, and I am certain th...My book has a central thesis, and I am certain that the thesis is true. However, the evidence supporting the thesis may or may not be true. That is possible because you can derive a true conclusions from false premises.<br />For example, Obama is a Muslim.<br />All Muslims are highly intelligent.<br />Obama is highly intelligent. So while I am certain that the thesis of my book is true,s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-45298543139337356062010-06-01T07:15:12.434-05:002010-06-01T07:15:12.434-05:00I didn't follow that.I didn't follow that.Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-27033471702929005002010-05-31T20:15:16.185-05:002010-05-31T20:15:16.185-05:00Couldn't the paradox come from the fact that o...Couldn't the paradox come from the fact that one can reach a true conclusion from false premmises or from false evidence? Thus, my central idea, say, that God is an atheist, may be true, but the evidence that I use to support my case may be false.s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-21974807733904445332010-05-31T18:47:49.070-05:002010-05-31T18:47:49.070-05:00Everybody who reads my blog is at a Memorial Day p...Everybody who reads my blog is at a Memorial Day parade right now--obviously. Or barbecuing tofu. I'll find somebody to bash with glee and then I'll get to have lots of comments too.Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-47299212179448756802010-05-31T17:07:30.427-05:002010-05-31T17:07:30.427-05:00The lack of response to your reflexions about para...The lack of response to your reflexions about paradoxes compared to the mass outrage over<br />the use of paradox in the name of religion in some of your favorite places shows to what extent the best minds of our generation are motivated by intellectual speculation or by the glee of bashing someone who disagrees with them.s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.com