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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ove Interest?
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:42:06 -0500
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On 2/19/2025 9:04 AM, AMuzi 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:
>>
>>> 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.
> 

And it may also be recognizing the futility of attempting a rational 
conversation with a willfully ignorant troll.

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