RE: What is a proof?
March 2, 2013 at 5:46 am
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2013 at 5:48 am by Muslim Scholar.)
(March 2, 2013 at 3:34 am)Kayenneh Wrote: and prove to you that your deduction is faulty and Billy is indeed a black swan. Then you must change your assumptions to:You are correct
a) Swans are either black or white.
b) Billy is a swan.
c) Therefore Billy is black or white.
This proof fails because its premises is false (or not accurate)
(March 2, 2013 at 3:44 am)justin Wrote: 1:It is weak because it relies on probability, deductive does not.I only disagree with the word "weak"
and i just said that
you should change it to probable because a probability of 0.001 is not equal to another of 0.999