Does inductive reasoning lead to knowledge?
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From: John Stafford on 8 Jan 2010 11:35 Patricia Aldoraz wrote: > On Jan 8, 9:24 am, John Stafford <n...(a)droffats.net> wrote: >> Good sample! I'm using your and Aldoraz's posts to demonstrate text >> analysis to find cohorts and same authors. Would you be interested in >> the outcome? > > You do that, it is the sort of trivial exercise that you would be > better suited at. Do it in the basketweaving class though, not here. > Here we are supposed to discuss philosophy, you dope. Ah, basketweaving class. Another perfect example of you and your sock-puppet's collating. Text analysis is not trivial. Learn up.
From: Michael Gordge on 8 Jan 2010 16:19 On Jan 8, 11:56 pm, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Ah, so since there are no lines in reality, Euclid's diverging lines are purely imagined, begin there, they are not real, these imagined lines take an imagined journey of infinity, without end and without direction, and then one has to petend that there's a half-way point on this purely imagined journey of infinity, and you want people to believe these lines just magically whimsically change in direction and therefore change in meaning from diverging to converging? And you want to be taken seriously? MG
From: PD on 8 Jan 2010 16:28 On Jan 8, 3:19 pm, Michael Gordge <mikegor...(a)xtra.co.nz> wrote: > On Jan 8, 11:56 pm, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Ah, so since there are no lines in reality, > > Euclid's diverging lines are purely imagined, begin there, they are > not real, these imagined lines take an imagined journey of infinity, > without end and without direction, and then one has to petend that > there's a half-way point on this purely imagined journey of infinity, > and you want people to believe these lines just magically whimsically > change in direction and therefore change in meaning from diverging to > converging? And so is Euclid's Fifth Postulate a postulate or not? This is a yes or no question. Please make a check mark in the appropriate place: ___ yes ___ no > > And you want to be taken seriously? Not at the moment. At the moment, I'm talking to a lunatic for entertainment. Not serious business at all.
From: Michael Gordge on 8 Jan 2010 16:38 On Jan 9, 6:26 am, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote: Desperate strawman garbage snipped, you haven't answered, can you be certain of anything? MG
From: Michael Gordge on 8 Jan 2010 16:43
On Jan 9, 6:28 am, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > And so is Euclid's Fifth Postulate a postulate or not? You have got my answer. MG |