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Handling the argument from personal experience

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Handling the argument from personal experience
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RE: Handling the argument from personal experience
November 16, 2013 at 3:16 pm (This post was last modified: November 16, 2013 at 4:48 pm by Anomalocaris.)
If someone draws a conclusion from personal experience, but is unwilling to put the conclusion to some form of repeatable test that does not rely solely on personal experience, then that person has in effect become unreachable.

You can't communicate with a person who has severed all of his/her sensory inputs from the world you live in.
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Handling the argument from personal experience - by max-greece - November 16, 2013 at 10:40 am
RE: Handling the argument from personal experience - by Zazzy - November 16, 2013 at 10:53 am
RE: Handling the argument from personal experience - by Anomalocaris - November 16, 2013 at 3:16 pm

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