Re: Thanks for the welcome... and white spots on wrapper?

Miss Elaine Eos <misc@*Your-pants*PlayNaked.com> wrote in news:i0fnpt$4s7$1
@news.eternal-september.org:

Yet you and I both know that I've been perfectly
clear about what I'm calling circular logic here.

Actually, I've been following this rather dispassionately, and I have
to say that you've not been clear at all.


You mean to say that you can't follow the simple example
of "This bone is 10,000,000 years old because it was
found in 10,000,000 year old rock, and we know the
rock is 10,000,000 years old because we found a
10,000,000 year bone in it"?

Yet this is exactly the sort of thing that's being
propounded. It's called "corroboration", but it's
still circular.

Odd that you can't follow such a simple example.

--
Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.
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