(March 2, 2010 at 9:04 pm)Saerules Wrote: No respectable hypothesis declares itself confirmed after only the second positive result.My sample set was much larger than that. 16 year olds have been telling me it for years, my friends and I used to say such nonsense when we were 16. Your further agreement with it only strengthens the hypothesis.
Quote:And I also disagree that you can tell that to any 16 year old and they will agree with you.So your second attempt is to induce bad logic, a red herring, by insinuating that I didn't mean humans when it was taken as a given that I did, seeing as I referenced humans repeatedly in my original statement.
I know an 18 year old dog that would hardly understand... let alone agree... with the proposition.
Quote:It's also almost certain that there must be some 16 year old humans (probably religious or not raised in a modern society, mind) who disagree with the idea that age ≠ wisdom.Go ahead then, find them and I'll change my hypothesis to "most 16 year olds".
Quote:Further... the fact that 16 year olds might agree with it doesn't decrease the strength of the argument. I already presented my stance on the argument... if you had it in your head to debate itIt does when you take into account arrogance as a phase 16 year olds seem to suffer from, coupled with the fact that these same people, when matured, disagree with their previous stances.