Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: olcott Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: They actual truth is that ... Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 07:19:51 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 91 Message-ID: References: <39f1a350cac0a8431753486526da1c35f458df65@i2pn2.org> <7959253e834d2861b27ab7b3881619c2017e199f.camel@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:19:52 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="45d09d337d8f7f50056d122f5780fe20"; logging-data="3845775"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/DVWEb1T4OgZz0Sd4VG5S1" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:/fAKtkzOJs0PTjbCzFtrOzBait8= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4645 On 10/11/2024 6:04 AM, Richard Damon wrote: > On 10/10/24 9:57 PM, olcott wrote: >> On 10/10/2024 8:39 PM, Richard Damon wrote: >>> On 10/10/24 6:19 PM, olcott wrote: >>>> On 10/10/2024 2:26 PM, wij wrote: >>>>> On Thu, 2024-10-10 at 17:05 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>>>>> Mikko wrote: >>>>>>> On 2024-10-09 19:34:34 +0000, Alan Mackenzie said: >>>>>> >>>>>>>> Richard Damon wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 10/8/24 8:49 AM, Andy Walker wrote: >>>>>>>>>> ... after a short break. >>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>      Richard -- no-one sane carries on an extended discussion >>>>>>>>>> with >>>>>>>>>> someone they [claim to] consider a "stupid liar".  So which >>>>>>>>>> are you? >>>>>>>>>> Not sane?  Or stupid enough to try to score points off someone >>>>>>>>>> who is >>>>>>>>>> incapable of conceding them?  Or lying when you describe >>>>>>>>>> Peter? You >>>>>>>>>> must surely have better things to do.  Meanwhile, you surely >>>>>>>>>> noticed >>>>>>>>>> that Peter is running rings around you. >>>>>> >>>>>>>>> In other words, you don't understand the concept of defense of >>>>>>>>> the truth. >>>>>> >>>>>>>> Maybe, but continuously calling your debating opponent a liar, >>>>>>>> and doing >>>>>>>> so in oversized upper case, goes beyond truth and comes >>>>>>>> perilously close >>>>>>>> to stalking. >>>>>> >>>>>>> Calling a liar a liar is fully justified. I don't know how often it >>>>>>> needs be done but readers of a liar may want to know that they are >>>>>>> reading a liar. >>>>>> >>>>>> We know Peter Olcott has lied in things that matter.  However, I >>>>>> believe >>>>>> his continual falsehoods are more a matter of delusion than >>>>>> mendacity. >>>>>> As Mike Terry has said, OP's intellectual capacity is low. >>>>>> Calling him >>>>>> a liar in virtually every post is, I think, unwarranted. >>>>>> >>>>>>>> It detracts from the substance of your posts, and makes >>>>>>>> them, for me at least, thoroughly unpleasant to read. >>>>>> >>>>>>> You probably needn't read them. >>>>>> >>>>>> As I said, I mostly don't - which is a pity, since Richard Damon >>>>>> often >>>>>> posts stuff worth reading. >>>>>> >>>>>>> As soon you find out that they repeat the same over and over, >>>>>>> neither >>>>>>> correcting their substantial errors nor improving their arguments >>>>>>> you >>>>>>> have read enough. >>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> Mikko >>>>> >>>>> olcott deliberately lies (he knows what is told, he choose to >>>>> distort). olcott >>>> >>>> When the behavior of DDD emulated by HHH is the measure then: >>> >>> But since it isn't, your whole argument falls apart. >>> >> >> Ah a breakthrough. >> >> > > And an admission that you are just working on a lie. > Perhaps you are unaware of how valid deductive inference works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive_reasoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man You can disagree that the premise to my reasoning is true. By changing my premise as the basis of your rebuttal you commit the strawman error. -- Copyright 2024 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer