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Re: DEDUCTIVE SCIENCE

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From: Uncle Al
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:38
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Pentcho Valev wrote:
[snip crap]

> That being so we cannot determine the truth-value of the
> conditional just on the basis of knowing the truth-values of the
> antecedent and the consequent.  Notwithstanding this we will treat the
> conditional as truth-functional. 
[snip rest of crap]

Aristotle, 300 BC - reality can be deductively reasoned
The One True Church - universal god-given truth.
Galileo, 1638 - the only way to know is to look.

Who won, asshole - god or the fella with a telescope?
 
idiot

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