Re: Cold Blooded Dinosaurs

"Ken Shackleton" <ken.shackle...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

You don't believe that that premise can be tested?
That was the point. I was arguing that the logic
was not circular, and if both premises were true,
then the conclusion must be accepted as true.

I've been through all this answering John Harshman,
it isn't worth doing the same load of laundry again.
If you want to read the answers, read the
interchange with him.

xanthian.


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