Re: bike path news

On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:34:34 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 3/10/2025 2:39 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/10/2025 10:23 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 3/10/2025 9:53 AM, AMuzi wrote:

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Valid opinions are based in supporting data.

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Wait... I thought I read here that everything is subjective, or
something like that!

 
Nope, not from me.

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Quoting your timid ally: "most everything *IS* subjective for people who
don't believe everything they're told."
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A person who accepted that would have to say that your data on increased
gun ownership is actually true only for some people. And conversely, it
would actually be simultaneously false for other people.
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And I don't think he's so sophisticated as to try to  macroscopically
apply Schroedinger's Cat - which would be silly enough.
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Things which have actually happened can actually recur.

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Sure. Applying a force to a mass can cause it to accelerate, time after
time. Applying heat to a mass of metal can cause it to increase in
temperature, and that can certainly recur.
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But your "intellectual" buddy would say "No, correlation does not imply
causation" and "most everything is subjective." It's his version of
"Ommmmm, nothing can be known, all is mystery."
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Please have him wrap his bare hand around a frame joint you've just
finished brazing.

<LOL> Krygowski believes that because events that obviously do cause
other events correlate with each other means that correlation implies
causation. I think Krygowski skipped school when they studied logic.

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C'est bon
Soloman