(August 9, 2012 at 7:30 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(August 9, 2012 at 6:53 pm)CliveStaples Wrote: I assumed that people here were familiar with basic, elementary symbolic logic.
(August 8, 2012 at 4:37 am)CliveStaples Wrote: Yeah, let's just lump everyone together! That's what a reasonable person does!
Pot, meet kettle.
Sorry mate tu quoque. Hate to say it,but Clive was correct in his comment about Brain's post.
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When I took logic,I was taught that for the sake of argument,argument, the premise is always assumed to be true. "If p then q" is also known as 'the first rule of inference' . To use it here as Clive has done is simply pretentious. However, to simply dismiss it because one does not understand comes across as ignorant and defensive.
