On 8/6/2012 8:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
[SPK] Which is the definition I use. Any one that actually thinks
that God is a person, could be a person, or is the complement
(anti) of such, has truly not thought through the implications of such.
[BM
For me, and comp, it is an open problem.
[SPK]
? Why? It's not complicated! A person must be, at least,
nameable. A person has always has a name.
[BM]
Why?
Because names are necessary for persistent distinguishability. Let
us try an informal proof by contradiction. Consider the case where it is
*not* necessary for a person to have a name. What means would then exist
for one entity to be distinguished from another? We might consider the
location of an entity as a proxy for the purposes of identification, but
this will not work because entities can change location and a list of
all of the past locations of an entity would constitute a name and such
is not allowed in our consideration here. What about the 1p content of
an entity, i.e. the private name that an entity has for itself with in
its self-referential beliefs? Since it is not communicable - as this
would make the 1p aspect a non-first person concern and thus make it
vanish - it cannot be a name. Names are 3p, they are public invariants
that form from a consensus of many entities coming to an agreement, and
thus cannot be determined strictly by 1p content. You might also note
that the anti-foundation axiom is "every graph has a unique decoration".
The decoration is the name! It is the name that allow for non-ambiguous
identification.
A number's name is its meaning invariant symbol representation
class... Consider what would happen to COMP if entities had no names! Do
I need to go any further for you to see the absurdity of persons (or
semi-autonomous entities) not having names?
Say that it is X. There is something that is not that person and that
something must therefore have a different name: not-X. What is God's
name? ... It cannot be named because there is nothing that it is not!
Therefore God cannot be a person. Transcendence eliminates
nameability. The Abrahamist think that Satan is the anti-God, but
that would be a denial of God's transcendence. There are reasons why
Abrahamists do not tolerate logic, this is one of them.
With comp if God exists it has no name, but I don't see why it would
make it a non person. God is unique, it does not need a name.
God is unique because there is no complement nor alternative to it.
Ambiguously stated: God is the totality of what is necessarily possible.
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Onward!
Stephen
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
~ Francis Bacon
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