I extended it.
What you're saying is the equivalent of saying that saying "Hiesraj is the queen of Xycoike" is not informative because you don't know what the queen of Xycoike is. It makes no sense. The sentence is meant not for you to understand everything. It's meant for you to create a mental folder led "Hiesraj" and then to add the file "queen of Xycoike" to is."Prime mover" isn't a description. It does not clear the picture of your god any more than not calling it the prime mover. It's pointless to attempt to define the unknown with the unknown. No one here has any idea what a prime mover is, so saying your god is one is no different than saying "god is a florndorfinitial". What is a florndorfinitial? It doesn't matter what it is, because whatever it is, that's what god is.
Google "tautology", would you? You'd see that the third definition it pulls up is:Whatever the prime mover is, that what you are saying god is, but it doesn't paint any clearer a picture of how you even view your god so it's pointless and yes it's illogical. It's a tautology.
Meaning that the bolded part of your above quote is illogical. Me making an iden y claim (which I'm not, but you seem to be unable to get that) is completely logical.logic: a statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of its logical form.
You sure seem to know:We know what "intelligent life form" means. We have standards we use to determine that. We don't know what a universal prime mover is, because we don't have standards to determine that. We cannot even say there was a first cause. We can say there is intelligent life somewhere, even here on this planet (oddly enough).
I'm starting to think you just fundamentally don't understand this. We're talking about extensions here, which means little bullet points that a person makes under the subject. So I am pretty much saying that under the headline "God", I have one bullet point, which reads, "is the prime mover". Other people will have different bullet points, like "omniscient", "benevolent", or "the children of the ans". People don't have to have the same extensions for terms. They just need to clarify in a conversations which extensions they have. This is something I have done numerous times on this issue.
Completely missed the point. In a trivial way, we already know there are aliens, because we've found bacteria on Mars. But no one really thinks we've settled that debate yet. If you've extended aliens to be anything outside of Earth, then you've already won. If you extend it as bipedal creatures with huge black eyes and ray guns, then you've still got work to do. Hence why extensions are important.Not all aliens are intelligent life forms, as a rock can be alien to this planet. Not all intelligent life forms are alien. Are all prime movers gods? Are all gods prime movers?

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