News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Do countries lose religion as they gain wealth? (2013). Parent comment

Re:Do countries lose religion as they gain wealth? (2013) by renewiltord on Sunday August 09, 2020 @04:42AM (#24098263)
It is straightforward to prove this through mere syllogism, but perhaps the discrepancy arises because you interpret "do not believe in a higher power" as "do not believe in a singular higher power"? In English, "X does not believe in a higher power" translates to the logical statement "For any higher power H, X does not believe in H", and is equivalent to the English statement "X does not believe in any higher power".

To go from there to ((English ("X does not believe in a higher power")) logically implies (English ("X does not believe in God"))) is trivial. And that is the definition of a subset A of B: \forall x \in A, x \in B

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Do countries lose religion as they gain wealth? (2013) by ganzuul on Sunday August 09, 2020 @06:20AM (#24098574)
Oh I see, you believe in the law of the excluded middle. I'm more of a constructivist myself.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Do countries lose religion as they gain wealth? (2013) by renewiltord on Sunday August 09, 2020 @05:12PM (#24102951)
Haha, an entertaining conclusion to this conversation. I enjoyed that.
[ Parent | on HN ]