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   From: Taemon@zonnet.nl   
      
   On 12-6-2014 19:01, Paul S. Person wrote:   
   > On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:02:46 +0200, Taemon  wrote:   
   >> On 3-6-2014 18:51, Paul S. Person wrote:   
   >>> That Lewis asserted above that "God does not exist" "is a factual   
   >>> statement that most people would not accept" is a fact, although the   
   >>> statement itself doesn't make sense (are we really to believe that a   
   >>> non-falsifiable statement is to be considered a fact because most   
   >>> people would /not/ accept it? or is the "not" a tyope?).   
   >> Not because of it. But it's a fact that most people believe in some god   
   >> or other. That doesn't change the fact of these god's existence.   
   > Ah ... so, then, are we to infer that he is boasting of his   
   > supposedly-superior intellect, in that he "knows" as a "fact"   
   > something that most people do not accept, thus putting him one-up on   
   > hoi polloi?   
      
   That's how I took it, yes. Incidentally, I think the same way. But I do   
   hope I sound less like an ass over it.   
      
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