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Talk:Essay: Logic and One View of Christianity (view source)
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: Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. If you accept the many premises as true, then the Christian teaching (at least as I understand it) follows logically. However, the premises themselves are not immune to questioning. I agree that this is not true formal logic. As I mentioned in the opening paragraphs, I'm using "logical" in the more colloquial sense of reasonable, sensible or persuasive. [[User:Eoinc|Eoinc]] 19:58, 17 December 2009 (EST)
: Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. If you accept the many premises as true, then the Christian teaching (at least as I understand it) follows logically. However, the premises themselves are not immune to questioning. I agree that this is not true formal logic. As I mentioned in the opening paragraphs, I'm using "logical" in the more colloquial sense of reasonable, sensible or persuasive. [[User:Eoinc|Eoinc]] 19:58, 17 December 2009 (EST)
: Or, to rephrase my approach in a more properly logical manner, a conclusion can be said to be true if the premises preceding it are true '''and''' if the argument is valid. The argument appears to be sound, so instead I am questioning the premises. [[User:Eoinc|Eoinc]] 20:04, 17 December 2009 (EST)