(April 19, 2014 at 8:04 am)Heywood Wrote: When you say information can't travel faster than the speed of light is that an argument from ignorance?
Negative Esquilax it is not. It is a fact of reality.
When you make a blanket generalization about the entirety of a thing without knowing every variable of the thing, then yes, what you are using is an argument from ignorance. What you're saying is that your experience of a thing leads you to believe that this is true, and hence it definitely is true across every part of it, even the parts you are ignorant of.

Quote:When it is said that quantum randomness cannot be explained by hidden local physical variables it is not an argument from ignorance but something accepted scientifically as a fact of reality.
Quantum mechanics might be wrong. Bells theorem might be wrong. But if both are true(and they are accepted to be true), then it is a fact that some observations cannot EVER be explained by hidden local physical variables.
I guaran-fucking-tee you that the science on this does not say "cannot EVER be explained" by anything at all. That's because scientists aren't in the business of making unsupported assertions, like ideologically motivated theist fallacy-makers are.
Quote:That's the way the world is.....Get over it and move on. Droning "argument of ignorance....or God of the gaps" isn't going to change reality.
Gosh, that's such a blow to my position! "If I'm right, then I'm right!"
Heywood, we've talked before, and you've never once been able to recognize the fallacies in your arguments, so I'm under no illusions that you'll suddenly understand this one, but getting bitchy over your inability to comprehensively demonstrate a single facet of your assertions just makes you look like a spoiled toddler.
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