Re: The Promise of Forth




John Doty wrote:

The world does not run on logic: the belief that it does is the
fallacy. Indeed, logic, used the reckless way the idolaters of logic
use it, proves that logic is useless, since it shows that any flaw in
the premises invalidates the conclusion. All human knowledge is
necessarily contingent and uncertain, so logic must therefore be
useless. QED

I am speechless. All I can do is to let the above stand without
any comment other than noting that the author claims to have a
basic knowledge of the scientific method.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,[SNIP!]

There is no need to demonstrate in detail that you don't know
what a null hypothesis is and are thus only able to argue
against a strawman parody of it. We already know that from
the rest of your writing. You have been advised to read a
book on critical thinking. Obviously you have decided to not
heed that advice.

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