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Subject: Re: Ove Interest?
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:04:37 -0600
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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:
> 
>> On 2/18/2025 12:00 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:
>>>   
>>> <snicker> dumbass thinks ignoring the result of the correlation means he
>>> can deny a correlation.
>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>> Dumbass need to be re-educated on the meaning of "correlation"
>>>
>> ...
>>>
>>> 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'.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Uneducable.
>>>>
>>>
>>> indeed.
>>
>> He trots out his favorite platitude every time he's presented with
>> evidence that he doesn't like.
>>
>> I suspect the only "causation" he'll accept is a correlation that was
>> fed to him from some whacko right wing talk show.
>>
>> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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:
> 
> "Providing proper fertilization to a growing plant correlates with
> faster growth. That correlation correctly implies causation."
> --Krygowski
> 
> Affirming the consequent is claiming that if P implies Q, therefore Q
> implies P.
> 
> Affirming the consequent is claiming that if fertilization makes a
> plant grow faster, therefore plants grow faster when fertilized.
> That is clearly false.
> 
> Krygowski and Junior might have learned that if they were better
> educated
> 
> But then again, understanding the intricacies of logic requires a
> level of intellect that neither of them possess.
> 
>   
> 
> --
> C'est bon
> Soloman

Failure to respond may just as well be an eyeroll to 
something considered trivial to one reader or another.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971