The argument comes down to what can be known by reason and what must be known by revelation.
I had relayed this previously in a computer sciencey fashion. If you have a recursive function such as void why( int reason ); When does the function return? What would be the exit condition?
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I'm assuming that's meant to be C/C++, which uses parentheses. It's either a declaration in a header file, or a function lacking any code within.
Whether the function is recursive is irrelevant to whether it returns anything. As has been pointed out, it's a void function, it never returns anything.
Now, I think the point nuknight is trying to push is that unless someone shows you the source or at least good documentation for the function, you can't know anything about it, therefore we have to be told everything by God to know anything. Apparently this dumbass has never heard of reverse engineering. You may not be able to divine the variable names used in the original code, but you can figure out what the function's doing well enough to answer the second question.
A void function cannot be recursive. To be recursive, a function (generally) has to send it's return value as a parameter to another call to itself. Since a void function doesn't have a return value...
Though I may be wrong, that's how it seemed to be in my CS 101 class. I don't use recursive functions much myself.
And now for your lesson of the day... among fallacious arguments, this is called a ..
Argument By Gibberish (Bafflement):
An example of poetic gibberish: "Each autonomous individual emerges holographically within egoless ontological consciousness as a non-dimensional geometric point within the transcendental thought-wave matrix."
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