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To: adiaireton8

Your argument isn't valid because it assumes (falsely) that Mary Mother of God is the only valid conclusion. It is a false dilemma.


1,949 posted on 12/18/2006 1:36:51 PM PST by Blogger
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To: Blogger
Your argument isn't valid because it assumes (falsely) that Mary Mother of God is the only valid conclusion. It is a false dilemma.

You have obviously never taken basic logic. My argument is valid because *if* the premises are true, the conclusion necessarily follows. In the science of logic, that is just what we mean by 'valid'. (Conclusions are not valid or invalid; *arguments* are valid or invalid.) If M is the mother of P, and P is God, then M is the mother of God. If those two premises are true, then that conclusion cannot be false. I am not offering any "dilemma", let alone a "false dilemma". I am presenting (in #1926) a valid deductive argument. The only way to refute it is to reject one of the two premises.

-A8

1,956 posted on 12/18/2006 1:52:08 PM PST by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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