RE: Is the statement "Claims demand evidence" always true?
January 18, 2017 at 6:35 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2017 at 6:40 pm by emjay.)
(January 18, 2017 at 5:58 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Perhaps you should investigate valid argument structures yourself, and save everyone alot of heartache? If I tell you "you can't phrase the statement that way, it's fallacy "x" it has nothing to do with my worldview (or whether it's accurate or inaccurate, true or false), or something that I personally disagree with. That's just how the system is arranged.
No amount of bickering about my worldview will change the rules of that system. That, too, is described by the system and given a classification as a fallacy.
I admit I may have misunderstood (what's new?
) but what I figured you were saying earlier was basically that propositional logic was like an equation; all premises and conclusions have to be able to evaluate to true or false not true and false, and thus benny's statement about truths being simultaneously true and false, dependent on what context they occur in, would be malformed... simply would not 'plug in' to the equation if visualised like that... basically 'syntax error... does not compute'. And the way round it was just to reformulate/reword it... correct the syntax error... find another way of saying the same thing that would compute. Is that what you meant?
