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Hi, I think this is interesting. This is my first introduction to the platinum rule. Could you point me to a link where I could read about it, I tried googling but it didn't lead to something applicable.

I don't know what their point is. It is hard to expect someone working with logical fallacies, doesn't know the relationship the days of the week have with each other. We know by our use of these terms that, (1) If today is Saturday, then tomorrow is Sunday. (2) If tomorrow is Sunday...

I understand a 'V' followed by a variable followed by a symbolic formula as an existential generalization and an 'inverted V' followed by a variable followed by a symbolic formula as a universal generalization. These symbols have to do with quantification.

Charges do what they do. Why do they do things that follow any order at all? Why have they followed the same order for every experiment for a couple hundred years? Why can't we trick them? It is fascinating. If you are looking for a answer that doesn't use math I would suggest finding a...

I agree, and we do not need to conclude that 'proof' does not exist. Agreed. Yes this does happen. The motivation you have in helping the general population to better understand science is commendable. Perhaps the problem isn't in the terms but in the way science is presented to the...

I am glad that I at least get the principle of what you are saying. I think that this is a very worthy motivation. I am not sure removing terms, people mistakenly interpret, is a proper solution. The author of a logic text stipulates clearly how to determine truth values for propostion...

I think this is important. Are we using the term 'certain' to mean 'absolute' so that 'certain knowledge' is 'absolute knowledge'. A type of knowledge that we could have 100% confidence in? And 'scientific knowledge' does not make a claim to 'absolute knowledge' and so the trilemma does not...

I understand the term assertion to be a proposition put forward as true. I understand proposition to be something capable of truthfulness or falseness. I understand true as something that can be given meaning. I understand denial to be the assertion of the negation of a proposition. Given...

I do not think it is consistent to believe that proofs do not actually exist and also to accept falsifiability. From Carl Sagan's words falsifiablity is related to disproof and disproof is a proof for the denial of an assertion. It seems that to believe that proofs do not exist means to...

I read this from your link: "Everything is now and You are here! That only leaves one other option if it were not true. You are not here and everything is not now, meaning you are dead !" Everything is now and you are here has two parts: everything is now; you are here. There are...

Let A be the ordered set of all quantities of apples, so A = { 0 apples, 1 apple, 2 apples, ... }. Let Z+ = { 0,1,2,3, ... }, the set of all positive integers. Abstractly Let x,y,z in A and a,b,c in Z+. Also x = a apples, y = b apples. a+b and ca have there usual meanings. Definition...

I can't give an exact and specific meaning of "a true statement." I have not figured that out yet. But I will try to share some of my understanding about deductive logic. A proposition, simply defined, is a statement that is true or false. This definition means that there is no in between...