Re: The Promise of Forth

Guy Macon wrote:
John Doty wrote:

One more comment: to worry excessively about fallacies indicates a profound commitment to avoid facing reality.

....says the man who believes things that are not true
based on nothing more than a logical fallacy.

.... says a man who believes that *any* evidence may be canceled by the concept of a "null hypothesis".

.... says a man who thinks a method of reasoning that has a historical record of repeated failure constitutes "critical thinking".

.... says a man who has never correctly identified any fallacy in my argument.




Should 18th century physicists have abandoned Newtonian mechanics and returned to a belief in Aristotelian physics when Berkeley showed that it was based on fallacious reasoning? Straight answer, no evasion please.

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John Doty, Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
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History teaches that logical consistency is neither sufficient nor necessary to establish practical, real world truth. Those who attempt to use logic for that purpose are abusing it.
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