Philosophical Failures of Christian Apologetics, Part 4: Word Games
Channel: Philosophy: Engineered!
Date: 2013-08-25

Tackling the philosophical mess of the ontological argument and clarifying the nature of logic and mathematics.  

Read the script here: https://philosophyengineered.blogspot.com/2012/08/post-iv-word-games.html

ERRATA:

9:25 - It turns out that these laws are not axioms.  Rather, they are TAUTOLOGIES.  That means they are formulas with a consistent truth values under all possible truth assignment functions.  We can derive tautologies from the definitions of the logical connectives, which are fundamentally arbitrary.  

Musical Credit: 

Michael "Skitch" Schiciano,  http://bio.skitchmusic.com/
"Dissociation" - https://soundcloud.com/skitchstudio/d...

Also thanks to Charkopolis and Bunnyfarmhophop for help with the cartoons.