Re: Microsoft and memcpy?

Richard Tobin wrote:

How does this distinction address the problem? Let me see if I
can make it out...

"X can make a rock that X cannot lift" is a perfectly reasonable
predicate that is true for some X and not for others. It's not an
"intrinsically impossibility". But when X is an omnipotent being, it
can be neither true nor false.

Presumably you (or Lewis) will prefer the alternative formulation
"X can make a rock that an omnipotent being cannot lift", and say
that this is an intrinsic impossibility, so it is not required for
an omnipotent being to be able to do it. Is that right?

If so, then Lewis could have come up with a much snappier answer.
"Can your god make a rock that he can't lift?" "No, omnipotence
doesn't cover that sort of thing."

-- Richard


Making a rock that can't be lifted was my previous version of this
argument. I changed since forgetting is much more difficult to deny.

Forgetting means destroying information, and this is one of the things
an omnipotent being is unable to do, denying him his omnipotence.

Why did I said that?

Because religious people starting invading all kinds of places
where superstition, religion, and similar stuff doesn't belong at
all.

Look here. We are in comp.lang.c, and yet the bible appears, being
cited as if it were somehow part of the culture we have to accept.

Surely not!

The bible is not part of my culture, and I would say it is not part
of what I understand as culture. It is part (like most religious
stuff) of a terrible mass hysteria that has brought only violence
to mankind.

It is the silence of the reasonable people that allow religions
to grow. That is why it would be nice if we took out the bible
from comp.lang.c, even if I do not like "off topic" diatribes.



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