I'd say an assumption is an assumed proposition.
I see lots of people throw the word "God" around when that term, that concept, has not first been defined in the discussion. — James Riley
Because they start from axioms. Empiricism, for instance, starts from the requirement that whatever is posited is discernable by sense-experience, or is mathematically provable with reference to such evidence, as a matter of course. Logic starts from axioms and rules, such as the law of identity and the law of the excluded middle. — Wayfarer
One first has to assume what does it mean to say that God exists, and I don't mean this in the traditional sense. — Shawn
An assumed proposition is similar to question begging in asking for no doubt to be utilized in face of a suppository argument about X to be held as true. — Shawn
You will encounter in various schools of philosophy, the assertion that God is 'beyond being'. — Wayfarer
This is where language goes on holiday. I — Shawn
I believe that with dispensing the Principle of Sufficient Reason, that science and logic so heavily rely on, one is committing oneself to the supernatural or creationism. — Shawn
How do science and logic rely on the Principle of Sufficient Reason?I believe that with dispensing the Principle of Sufficient Reason, that science and logic so heavily rely on, one is committing oneself to the supernatural or creationism. — Shawn
No, it's where philosophical theology exceeds your grasp. Don't take that as a pejorative. But there is a definite and real method here if you're patient enough to try and grasp it. — Wayfarer
How do science and logic rely on the Principle of Sufficient Reason? — Banno
So early belief is in some respects easier to think about than modern belief in terms of what one uses to explain certain phenomena. — Manuel
There's no reason to argue with him if he's going to accept fallacies. — Wheatley
But what if God is purely an internal thing and is not above, below, alongside, and in any sense outside the world. The sufficient reason isn't outside things. Science can explain just fine how the world came to be (Hawking's hypothesis, ect)
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