Posted by Larry Hoover on December 1, 2005, at 22:56:27 [reposted on December 3, 2005, at 14:38:50 | original URL]
In reply to if pdoc then q » willyee » Larry_Hoover, posted by pseudoname on December 1, 2005, at 16:04:09
> Larry said:
> > The poster did use an existential qualifier, "most", which weakens the counter-argument, making it, too, conditional.
>
> What would the (conditional) counter-argument be? "...and most other Babblers think they're DUMBER than their pdocs are"?My semantics were bad on that, and I couldn't get it to tighten up. I am not a philosophy major, or whoever they are that debate this stuff.....Frankly, I worded that quite poorly.
I like the cases where one single case can disprove the other's point. Not arguing shades of gray.
What was the original question?
Lar
poster:Larry Hoover
thread:585017
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20051203/msgs/585024.html