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WolfpackN64 said:
JWeinCom said:

The cosmological argument does not end at necessary being.  It ends at god.  That was your conclusion.  If that conclusion is not completely justified by the premises, and only the premises, your argument is not valid.

Well, if that is your conclusion, good luck reading the entire thread over to see where you went wrong. Good day sir.

And this is what you keep doing.  Insisting that anyone who disagrees with you is wrong without actually being able to explain why.  It is quite obnoxious.  And this is probably why your interactions with everyone are so testy.

Your conclusion is absolutely that there is a god.  I quoted you on that twice now since you don't seem to know your own argument as well as I do.  So that part of my post is 100% demonstrable correct.  

Here is a definition of validity from the internet encyclopedia of philosophy.   

"A deductive argument is said to be valid if and only if it takes a form that makes it impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion nevertheless to be false. Otherwise, a deductive argument is said to be invalid."

If you presented an argument that ends in god, but (and I'll quote you again) " the deductive Cosmological argument ends at the necessary being" than your argument is clearly invalid, because it does not reach the conclusion.  You actually could quite easily fix this problem by changing the conclusion, but apparently you'd rather insist that you're correct than to make a small adjustment.

Perhaps I simply don't possess your superior logical acumen, but I fail to see how anything I said was wrong. I would suggest you practice some epistemological modesty and brush up on logic 101.

Last edited by JWeinCom - on 11 September 2018