I was curious as to what, if anything, could be made of this:
Elsewhere, I made the point that the existence of the non-material is self-evident and that an example are the laws of logic.
Someone retorted that the laws were just ideas.
May considering the laws of logic to be ideas result in the following conclusion?:
The laws of logic are ideas.
Are they human inventions or discoveries?
If they were human inventions they could not be objective laws and a wolf might find itself running through a forest and suddenly turn into a dyslexic shrimp (can you say, “improbability drive”?-sorry, a little Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy lingo).
Therefore, the laws of logic are ideas but were not invented by humans-they are not the product of the human mind.
Now we must ask: what are the laws of logic? Here I do not mean deductive, inductive, syllogistic, predicative, modal, mathematical, philosophical, etc. What I seek to ascertain by the question, and what I am rhetorically implying, is that the laws of logic are not objects, they are not material things.
The laws of logic are concepts.
What are concepts?
Concepts are ideas.
Where do ideas exist?
Ideas exist in minds.
Where does the idea of the laws of logic exist?
The idea of the laws of logic, like all ideas, exists in a mind.
Since logic was not invented by humans but existed before we detected it, it seems reasonable to conclude that logic is eternal. Any viable counterargument to this claim would have to demonstrate when logic began to exist.
It would also seem reasonable to conclude that logic cannot change. If logic ever changed, it would cease to be logic but would be illogic. Logic cannot be both logical and illogical at the same time and in the same relation.
Therefore, where has this argument taken us?
It may demonstrate that the idea of the laws of logic is an eternal and unchanging idea that exists in a mind.
The only kind of mind in which this sort of eternal and unchanging idea could exist must be an eternal and unchanging mind.
This eternal and unchanging mind could be referred to as God.