Re: Ove Interest?

On 2/19/2025 11:37 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 2/19/2025 3:05 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:51:48 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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On 2/18/2025 12:00 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:

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<snicker> dumbass thinks ignoring the result of the correlation means he
can deny a correlation.
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Dumbass need to be re-educated on the meaning of "correlation"
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This is from a dumbass who was presented with two government reports
detailing the specification, testing, acceptance, and subsequent
acquisition of 80,000 AR-15s by the US military and concludes 'the AR-15
is a weapon the US military never wanted and never used'.
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Uneducable.
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indeed.

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He trots out his favorite platitude every time he's presented with
evidence that he doesn't like.
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I suspect the only "causation" he'll accept is a correlation that was
fed to him from some whacko right wing talk show.
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I'm generally resisting the urge to respond to him. I suspect that's
giving his life even less meaning, but I'm not sympathetic.

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Failure to respond indicates that he has no answer, although there's
the remote possibility that he understand that I'm right, he's wrong
and simply doesn't have balls to admit it.
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Affirming the consequent is a formal fallacy that is committed when it
is stated that because the consequent is true, therefore the
antecedent is true as Krygowski did in the following statement:
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"Providing proper fertilization to a growing plant correlates with
faster growth. That correlation correctly implies causation."
--Krygowski
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Affirming the consequent is claiming that if P implies Q, therefore Q
implies P.
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Affirming the consequent is claiming that if fertilization makes a
plant grow faster, therefore plants grow faster when fertilized.
That is clearly false.
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Krygowski and Junior might have learned that if they were better
educated
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But then again, understanding the intricacies of logic requires a
level of intellect that neither of them possess.
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--
C'est bon
Soloman

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Failure to respond may just as well be an eyeroll to
something considered trivial to one reader or another.
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 Indeed failure to respond certainly in my case can mean I’ve given up not
worth the Electrons and frankly it’s not going anywhere.
 Very unlikely to be ooh gotcha he’s won that argument! Or he’s so right!
 Clearly occasionally do learn something, which is interesting, or at least
hopefully so!
 Roger Merriman
 

+1
I also learn a lot here, most valuably on topics I would not have otherwise engaged.
--
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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