*_Aha!! Boy, am I going to enjoy this! :D_* Or rather: 1) I both love & have a deep respect for logic & critical thinking (not to mention that it's beautiful AND thoroughly useful!), 2) This is a course on logic & critical thinking, 3) The first video this series is clear, precise & well done, & 4) There's no reason to think the rest of them won't be on par with the first, *_THEREFORE: Aha!! Boy am I going to enjoy this! :D_* I'm a firm believer that logic & critical thinking should be taught in school - and from the earliest ages - just as reading, math, language, & science are; I think it's that important. Thanks in advance. 𝓡𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲 𝓣𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲. (& sometimes 𝕥𝕒𝕧𝕚.)
Thank for so much for making this video and for making your website! I’m studying logic because I find it really interesting and your resources have been really helpful and informative
Professor Stearn: You mention a textbook or workbook several times in this series. If it is identified somewhere in a video, I missed it and am hoping you can give me the author and title so I can get more from the course. Your explanations are very clear and demonstrate that you are a master teacher. Thank you for posting these.
I've always been fascinated by philosophy as it pertains to the origin of our universe and the arguments against the existence of God who created it, and man as well, by philosophical argument. Having received many replies from atheists to my many comments on posts I've made speaking in favor of the existence of Creator God, not academically argued on the part of Atheists and Evolutionists alike, I find it more profitable to default to the ultimate evidence for the existence of God every person carries with them wherever they are found. One concrete evidence it simply that God made Himself known to every person intentionally and intrinsically. That's in Romans 1:18 and following. In other words, the knowing subjectively and inescapably there is the Living God is present in the mind of every person by an act of God having built this into the very nature of man. That being the evidence, now man has "no excuse" in saying, "I didn't know." And with that, God is justified to judge man righteously being the knowledge of His existence brought with it the knowledge of right and wrong... by this knowledge He will judge every person, otherwise called the law of God. As a side note... it's comes natural to the atheist to claim the Bible is a mythical collection of stories written by idiots. These atheists, being ignorant of what they're saying since they do not read the Bible, let alone study it, fail to realize that God is known outside of the Bible... God is external to the Bible by reason of having put in every person the knowledge of His existence and His law, as already shown. The intrinsic knowledge of right and wrong did not come from the monkey... it came from God. Furthermore, the Holy Scripture from which our Bibles are translated came into existence thousands of years after, not before, but after Creation... long after Creation. The Flood of Noah swept away billions of people for the direct cause of having grossly violated the law of God He put in every one of us. The next irrefutable evidence for the existence of God is Creation. Material, hence matter, did not and could not create itself, Big Bang itself into our universe and ultimately have given life to matter as the atheists and Big Bangers so claim, without proof, of course. It's all rhetoric concocted out of the imagination of anti-Christs and anti-Semitic people. Life and living things can not come to life out of material, matter. The atheists all duck to answer that charge as well, and fail to show their evidence of how life comes from non-living matter... because there is none. So they resort to changing the subject in their arguments and to calling their opponents vile names like they did as children in a schoolyard. Life comes from the Living God and is given by Him to material creatures, man included. No mystery there. Lastly, it was Jesus Christ, Savior, who created the universe and all things living and non-living, in it. John 1:1-4. The Bible further enhances our knowledge of God's works though God exists outside of Holy Scripture, else everyone redeemed by Him before Holy Scripture was written could not and would not have been redeemed by Him.
I have some doubts about the validity of the second argument. In this example, "grasp" can mean one of either (i) understanding a concept or (ii) having an experience (like a religious experience). So, It seems like there is a missing, hidden premiss; if we go by (i), as you seem to suggest, the "proper" argument would look like this (1) If there were an infinite, timeless God, finite minds could not grasp this God. (2) The failure to grasp an infinite, timeless God does not constitute evidence against God. (3) Therefore, the failure to grasp God is evidence for God.
I'm a philosophy major and I find your videos really helpful. Thank you so much for uploading these. Do continue the good work (:
*_Aha!! Boy, am I going to enjoy this! :D_* Or rather: 1) I both love & have a deep respect for logic & critical thinking (not to mention that it's beautiful AND thoroughly useful!), 2) This is a course on logic & critical thinking, 3) The first video this series is clear, precise & well done, & 4) There's no reason to think the rest of them won't be on par with the first, *_THEREFORE: Aha!! Boy am I going to enjoy this! :D_* I'm a firm believer that logic & critical thinking should be taught in school - and from the earliest ages - just as reading, math, language, & science are; I think it's that important. Thanks in advance. 𝓡𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲 𝓣𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲. (& sometimes 𝕥𝕒𝕧𝕚.)
Thank for so much for making this video and for making your website! I’m studying logic because I find it really interesting and your resources have been really helpful and informative
Professor Stearn: You mention a textbook or workbook several times in this series. If it is identified somewhere in a video, I missed it and am hoping you can give me the author and title so I can get more from the course. Your explanations are very clear and demonstrate that you are a master teacher. Thank you for posting these.
I've always been fascinated by philosophy as it pertains to the origin of our universe and the arguments against the existence of God who created it, and man as well, by philosophical argument. Having received many replies from atheists to my many comments on posts I've made speaking in favor of the existence of Creator God, not academically argued on the part of Atheists and Evolutionists alike, I find it more profitable to default to the ultimate evidence for the existence of God every person carries with them wherever they are found. One concrete evidence it simply that God made Himself known to every person intentionally and intrinsically. That's in Romans 1:18 and following. In other words, the knowing subjectively and inescapably there is the Living God is present in the mind of every person by an act of God having built this into the very nature of man. That being the evidence, now man has "no excuse" in saying, "I didn't know." And with that, God is justified to judge man righteously being the knowledge of His existence brought with it the knowledge of right and wrong... by this knowledge He will judge every person, otherwise called the law of God. As a side note...
it's comes natural to the atheist to claim the Bible is a mythical collection of stories written by idiots. These atheists, being ignorant of what they're saying since they do not read the Bible, let alone study it, fail to realize that God is known outside of the Bible... God is external to the Bible by reason of having put in every person the knowledge of His existence and His law, as already shown. The intrinsic knowledge of right and wrong did not come from the monkey... it came from God. Furthermore, the Holy Scripture from which our Bibles are translated came into existence thousands of years after, not before, but after Creation... long after Creation. The Flood of Noah swept away billions of people for the direct cause of having grossly violated the law of God He put in every one of us.
The next irrefutable evidence for the existence of God is Creation. Material, hence matter, did not and could not create itself, Big Bang itself into our universe and ultimately have given life to matter as the atheists and Big Bangers so claim, without proof, of course. It's all rhetoric concocted out of the imagination of anti-Christs and anti-Semitic people. Life and living things can not come to life out of material, matter. The atheists all duck to answer that charge as well, and fail to show their evidence of how life comes from non-living matter... because there is none. So they resort to changing the subject in their arguments and to calling their opponents vile names like they did as children in a schoolyard. Life comes from the Living God and is given by Him to material creatures, man included. No mystery there. Lastly, it was Jesus Christ, Savior, who created the universe and all things living and non-living, in it. John 1:1-4. The Bible further enhances our knowledge of God's works though God exists outside of Holy Scripture, else everyone redeemed by Him before Holy Scripture was written could not and would not have been redeemed by Him.
Is there a patreon to support this channel
Thank you for asking, Andy. I will create one soon, but not yet. my current website is lucidphilosophy.com
I have some doubts about the validity of the second argument. In this example, "grasp" can mean one of either (i) understanding a concept or (ii) having an experience (like a religious experience). So, It seems like there is a missing, hidden premiss; if we go by (i), as you seem to suggest, the "proper" argument would look like this
(1) If there were an infinite, timeless God, finite minds could not grasp this God.
(2) The failure to grasp an infinite, timeless God does not constitute evidence against God.
(3) Therefore, the failure to grasp God is evidence for God.
+ThePSXHive Thanks, ThePSXHive. The extra premise does clarify and I agree grasp is ambiguous.
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What is the difference between Formal logic and symbolic logic
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Formal is with a tuxedo.
I'm watching this for a test tomorrow for logical reasoning. Ah! I