Not necessarily. A sound argument is a valid argument that has premises which are true so that the conclusion must be true.
Ah well, there's the rub. Pretty much by definition metaphysics is anything that is beyond a physical test. Absolutely anything that cannot be proven false could be true. So if some designer has fixed it so there is no way to prove their existence, he/she/it could very well be the subject of a sound argument, but by design she has fixed it so that we can't know.seeds wrote: ↑Thu Nov 04, 2021 6:01 pmIf so, then how can one produce a "sound argument" for the existence of a designer of the universe if, for the sake of maintaining the integrity and viability of the design, the designer...(as in the one who is in control of the parameters of the design)...wants (needs) his existence to remain hidden and unprovable?
There's no difference in structure, that's what makes it so easy to assume that they are equivalent. People aren't very good at distinguishing a coherent story with a true one. That's how Fox News makes it's money; they're basically writing a soap opera for hard of thinking couch potatoes.
In argument form, what you are saying is:
The world is designed.
The invisibility of the designer is part of the design.
Therefore we can't see the designer.
Which is valid.
Age is no guarantee of wisdom. Yes there have been notions of transcendence for donkey's years; Plato's allegory of the cave being a famous example. And yea though I remember singing
Immortal, invisible, God only wise,
In light inaccessible hid from our eyes,
the idea is actually heretical to christianity, the whole premise of which is that god not only revealed himself, but walked amongst us.
Well yeah, some of them are clearly bonkers. Those that aren't may well be on to something, and for all I know, your story is on the money.
Well, it's just like your picture, except it rains beer and hangovers don't exist.seeds wrote: ↑Thu Nov 04, 2021 6:01 pmNow how about using that extremely intelligent and creative mind of yours to meet that "challenge" I offered up earlier and try to come up with something better than suns and planets when it comes to producing a setting for the awakening of new human souls into existence.