Noted with thanks. I'm not, in any way, trying to suggest that evolution is an agency unto itself but it's telling that you assumed that I was. Have a...
On what exactly? PA= Particular affirmative (positive existential claim): Some As are Bs e.g. Some dogs are black UN = The negation of P is the univer...
Sorry, I was trying to work on the lacunae in my understanding. I figured it out to some extent thanks to you. :up: ~p isn't falsehood and I suppose y...
Be careful there, if T = god exists, then if A = god doesn't exist, ~T = A. "Not T" can be rephrased as "A" and likewise, "Not A" is "T". So, the ques...
I'm approaching the issue with an open mind without any preconceptions or prejudices. My aim was to discover for myself why the burden of proof has to...
You have raised objections to my argument re why positive claims have priority over negative claims with regard to which must be first tackled in the ...
Sorry if you feel differently. Everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion but read the post preceding this one. It should be crystal clear why p need...
Suppose we're having a debate. The topic is whether god exists or not. The first proposition that kicks off the debate is without doubt the propositio...
Negation is an operation. It needs a proposition i.e. before I negate p and get ~p, the proposition p has to be there. Right? Just think of it, "not c...
You missed the point. It makes no difference whether you're talking about a horse fitting/running/anything at all. To prove that a horse is fitting/ru...
So, you mean to say the positive statement, "a horse is in the fridge" is harder to prove than the negative statement, "a horse is not in the fridge"?...
My bad. Yes, I did but since you raised an objection, it kinda,threw me off. What's the problem with "negative statements" being equivalent? That you ...
Q1. Does p come first or does ~p come first? A1. p of course. Q2. Is proof required for a proposition? A2. Yes, all propositions require proof. Q3. So...
Sorry to interrupt your, what I feel is, deep meditation but I have a question to ask. It isn't something that I've given the attention it probably de...
Suppose there are two people (two propositions, p, ~p) in a line, and both are required to pay a fee (both need proof), shouldn't the first in the lin...
Addendum: Suppose I want to prove proposition P and I use argument T, in the context of T, P is true or so the claim is. Then the following is true: 1...
Possibly but the Wikipedia page on burden of proof/can't prove a negative uses the same analogy. I'm quite content with that. I didn't mention any equ...
So? What's your take on the dilemma? Should you go for the million bucks in brand-new notes or should you save the poor fellow on the tracks? Bear in ...
Books are essentially information coded in light - shapes, sizes, color, spaces, are certain features of writing that seem to matter but, all things c...
Interesting question by all accounts and standards but in a sense, sorry to say, misguided. An analogy is in order but do take this with a grain of so...
1. Negation is an operation i.e. it needs for there to be something which can then be negated e.g. to get to ~p, we need a p first. 2. From 1, p comes...
I guess we could frame the question in the context of power (weakness/strength). Our weaknesses push us towards collectivism and our strengths pull us...
Kant seems to be. the go to person here. Suppose the answer to the above question is, "there are no good reasons why one should be moral." Would this ...
I gave this some thought and here's what I found out. We start off with a proposition (p) & the negation of that proposition (~p) and discover that p ...
Good one! The default position is skepticism but with the caveat that that's not the best concept to describe the epistemic state in question. I prefe...
This is what bothers me. What I know of probability is that this issue raised by you has to do with what is known as expected value (I'm in two minds ...
Well, the point of Fallacy man's highly informative albeit short tale is simply to make the reader cognizant of what fallacies truly are - weaknesses ...
Suppose you play a game with one die and the rules are getting a 6 means a loss. Getting any other number {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} is a win You're very excited...
I'm quite wary of authority especially because of its association with appeal to force. A better word, a more apt category, with the same role but inf...
This would be, for me, the fallacy committed by the fallacy fallacy by wrongly assuming fallacies are about the truth value of the conclusion rather t...
Fallacies, by definition, are about what logicians seem to refer to as inferential link between premises and conclusion. Fallacies are weaknesses/fail...
Here's something that has me puzzled... Imagine you throw a six-sided die 5 times and all times you get a 6. The probability of this happening = (1/6)...
Consider infinity as it appears in the law of large numbers not as something completed/actual (not ok) but as something incomplete/potential (ok). It ...
Interesting! I thought this would vitiate the ontological argument, weaken it to the point of being vacuous. The key word in the ontological argument ...
First off, using a die instead of a coin complicates the matter (for me) but it really doesn't seem to be that much of a problem. I'll use a coin if i...
Two ways, probably mutually incompatible, of looking at the issue of what is in fact someone undergoing a psychological "transformation", Transformati...
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