Posted by Ophi on September 25, 1999 at 03:28:42:
In Reply to: Re: Defending myself posted by Nepenthe on September 24, 1999 at 16:04:22:
Yeah pretty much. The game's only fun if you win =)
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Yeah, but at least you can do it in an arrogant, smug, pompous way that doesn't involve profanities.
It's called being an ass without actually becoming uncivilized. =)
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I extrapolate (interpolate?) that if you seem to assume that you can reason from false premises to true conclusions, you're incompetent. If, in fact, you understand that you can't start out assuming the sky is green and get truth, I apologize.
Hrm actually you can. Logic is usually defined as correct "reasoning". It only require that you use proper induction, deduction, etc. to reach a certain point. It doesn't stop you from first using false premise, such as say, the sky is pink.
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I have no idea what point you're trying to make here. You only want to play the game if you have a sure thing victory based on tactics you didn't have to work out for yourself?
Right. Not an ass, just smug, pompous and unhelpful. Pardon me.
Making an ass of oneself and being an ass are two different things. We've all made asses of our selves from time to time.
I'm not about to get into an argument over that. I'll accept on faith that you can handle logic without demanding some proofs by mathematical induction as evidence. Surely you understand that an argument based on completely incorrect facts, even if logically valid, still arrives at a wrong conclusion.
Your facts are wrong. Very wrong. Not "I called it red but it's a dark pink wrong." We're talking completely wrong. That's all I'm really saying.
I have no problem being wrong. So I'm wrong. I'm soooooo wrong. Big way way way big wrong. heh.