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Zeno and Sorites paradox solved, Descartes failed syllogism

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  1. we attempt to model the world the way we see the world: a binary succession of ideas. Zeno's and Sorites paradoxes asks what is in between these binary events. When Zeno attempted to grab hold of the space between Achilles and the tortoise,he grabbed hold of the law of excluded middle. The paradoxes arises due the reification of the laws of logic, the laws can't be verified as any verification would have to use these same laws and the paradoxes resurface each generation under a different rubric. Behe's Irreducible Complexity for example is Sorites paradox of the heap: when does a hole in the ground become a mouse trap? Alexander Pope addressed the matter and being a friend of George Berkeley, his ideas could probably be found in Berkeley's works. Aristotle reflected Zeno's concept with constituted spontaneity(from Darwin's OoS) and D'Arcy Thompson preempted Behe's IC with composite integrity. Popper's idea of falsifiability was recognized by Richard Owen, Samuel Butler and Charles Hodge in their critiques of Darwin.
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  3. === Descartes failed syllogism ===
  4. Descartes “I think, therefore I am” is the syllogism I think, in order to think I must exist,
  5. therefore I exist. The conclusion repeats the second premise, hence there is no syllogism allowing us
  6. to establish our ontological existence.
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  8. Our existence is obvious, which makes the belief circular(the epistemic equivalent of counterfeiting)
  9. , only knowing everything prevents if from being arbitrary: we exist, because we exist in the matrix of God's mind.
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