• pachrist@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, probably would have been better to use dividing by 0 instead of 0=1 as the example, but the point still stands.

    Yes/no isn’t a valid answer to a paradox. Can God create a universe where there is freewill and there isn’t freewill? Can God create a rock so large he can’t lift it? Can he shit so big he can’t flush it? All interesting, but in the end invalid questions. But shoehorning in a yes/no when the real answer is just undefined is incorrect.

    It’s good fun for an internet comment section, or irritating some youth group leader, but in the end not a useful question.

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      3 months ago

      I don’t get why you say they are not valid questions? I see nothing invalid in them. Instead it seems to me you seem to disagree with the consequences such “yes/no” answers carry and are preemptively dismissing them

      Overall this paradox is a thought experiment, as such, even in the absence of a concrete answer, it is still a very valid and valuable question