5 Ways atheism is self defeating

Atheism is a self-defeating philosophy that causes us to believe things that are self-contradictions. Here are 5 different ways atheism cannot get off the ground:

http://reasonsforjesus.com/5-ways-atheism-is-self-defeating/

OLAADEGBU:
5 Ways atheism is self defeating

Atheism is a self-defeating philosophy that causes us to believe things that are self-contradictions. Here are 5 different ways atheism cannot get off the ground:

http://reasonsforjesus.com/5-ways-atheism-is-self-defeating/

Theists can take their time to study atheists.....

However when atheists say something about there God they start saying shiits like "why must you hate what you don't believe in?" "why are you spending your time in religious section when you don't believe in God?"

SMH to yhu...

Radarada ni gbogbo yin

purem:



Theists can take their time to study atheists.....

However when atheists say something about there God they start saying shiits like "why must you hate what you don't believe in?" "why are you spending your time in religious section when you don't believe in God?"

SMH to yhu...

Radarada ni gbogbo yin

Are you finding it bitter to taste your own medicine?

purem:



Theists can take their time to study atheists.....

However when atheists say something about there God they start saying shiits like "why must you hate what you don't believe in?" "why are you spending your time in religious section when you don't believe in God?"

SMH to yhu...

Radarada ni gbogbo yin

For atheists to say that there is no God they are saying that they have perfect knowledge. Do they?

Dude I'm guessing your pretty idle at this time of the year
I've just being seeing your posts on the religion section..Welldone sir

OLAADEGBU:


5 Ways atheism is self defeating

Atheism is a self-defeating philosophy that causes us to believe things that are self-contradictions. Here are 5 different ways atheism cannot get off the ground:

http://reasonsforjesus.com/5-ways-atheism-is-self-defeating/

1. Logical positivism and (2) The principle of verificationism
Logical Positivism (later also known as Logical Empiricism) is a theory in Epistemology and Logic that developed out of Positivism and the early Analytic Philosophy movement, and which campaigned for a systematic reduction of all human knowledge to logical and scientific foundations.

Thus, its principle of verification says a statement is meaningful only if it is either purely formal (essentially, mathematics and logic) or capable of empirical verification. [source]

Premise 1: According to logical positivism and the principle of verification, a statement is meaningful only if it is either purely formal (math or logic) or capable of empirical verification.
Premise 2: But that claim is neither a purely formal statement nor capable of empirical verification.
Conclusion: Therefore Logical Positivism and the principle of verification are self-defeating

OLAADEGBU:


1. Logical positivism and (2) The principle of verificationism
Logical Positivism (later also known as Logical Empiricism) is a theory in Epistemology and Logic that developed out of Positivism and the early Analytic Philosophy movement, and which campaigned for a systematic reduction of all human knowledge to logical and scientific foundations.

Thus, its principle of verification says a statement is meaningful only if it is either purely formal (essentially, mathematics and logic) or capable of empirical verification. [source]

Premise 1: According to logical positivism and the principle of verification, a statement is meaningful only if it is either purely formal (math or logic) or capable of empirical verification.
Premise 2: But that claim is neither a purely formal statement nor capable of empirical verification.
Conclusion: Therefore Logical Positivism and the principle of verification are self-defeating

3. Scientism

Science, modeled on the natural sciences, is the only source of real knowledge. [source]

Premise 1: According to Scientism, science is the only source of real knowledge.
Premise 2: But that following statement is not itself scientific (it is philosophical).
Conclusion: Therefore Scientism is self-defeating

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3. Scientism

Science, modeled on the natural sciences, is the only source of real knowledge. [source]

Premise 1: According to Scientism, science is the only source of real knowledge.
Premise 2: But that following statement is not itself scientific (it is philosophical).
Conclusion: Therefore Scientism is self-defeating

4. Materialism

The doctrine that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications. [source]

Premise 1: According to materialism, nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications.
Premise 2: The meaning of that very sentence is neither matter, movement, nor modification. (Semantic meaning is immaterial.)
Conclusion: Therefore materialism is self-defeating.

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4. Materialism

The doctrine that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications. [source]

Premise 1: According to materialism, nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications.
Premise 2: The meaning of that very sentence is neither matter, movement, nor modification. (Semantic meaning is immaterial.)
Conclusion: Therefore materialism is self-defeating.

5. Empiricism

Empiricism is the theory that the origin of all knowledge is sense experience. It emphasizes the role of experience and evidence, especially sensory perception, in the formation of ideas, and argues that the only knowledge humans can have is a posteriori (i.e. based on experience).

Premise 1: All knowledge originates from sense experience.
Premise 2: That sentence does not originate from sense experience (i.e., that sentence entails causality, immaterial meaning, immaterial language, immaterial truth-relations, etc. none of which are substantially reducible to the act of or objects of sensory perception).