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Re: Does inductive reasoning lead to knowledge?

marshall.spi...@gmail.com (Marshall) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:00:16 UT

That's bullshit.
Marshall

Re: Here is my beef on Abiogenesis and evolution the fairy story for

smi...@joe.king.com (Smiler) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:41:54 UT

He's left handed?
(The original meaning of 'sinister')

Re: A question Budikaka can't anser ever (snicker)

smi...@joe.king.com (Smiler) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:35:23 UT

So you must be able to quote, with referrences to the original post, the
exact words where someone other than you has claimed that science has 'the
answer to everything'. Please do so in this space.
You do, of course, realise that, if science did have the answer to
everything, there would be no point in doing any further research. But then

Re: Does inductive reasoning lead to knowledge?

jclarke.use...@cox.net (J. Clarke) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:15:54 UT

I didn't say they were made up _of_ rules, I said that they were rules that
someone made up.
No, it is not an open question. Mathematics is a game, an intellectual
exercise, any relation that it bears to practical reality is purely
coincidental. A common toast among mathematicians is "here's to pure

Re: A question to Budikaka

smi...@joe.king.com (Smiler) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:22:37 UT

ICYPFY.

So Who's A Climate Scientist?

m...@nnn.com ( n0 b o) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:15:30 UT

Depends On Which Side You're On
Any old alarmist is AUTOMATICALLY a "climate scientist"!!
August 4 2009
"PROMINENT scientists with long publications records, such as Bob Carter,
are routinely described by the media as not being climate scientists and
really not reputable scientists at all if they aren't on the alarmist

BBC to launch review into allegations of bias in its science coverage

m...@nnn.com ( n0 b o) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:55:07 UT

There are several articles on topic listed by google news, including one at
BBC:
[link]
Why doesn't Canada ever review the CBC's bias, which is even worse than
BBC's?
UK during the ice age: [link]

Re: Does inductive reasoning lead to knowledge?

patricia.aldo...@gmail.com (Patricia Aldoraz) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:47:46 UT

Ah well, dorayme... woo hoo dorayme... look we are finally of some
use to these folks! Which reminds me of this story:
A woman was given her late husband's ashes in the form of a sand-timer
like utensil. Every time she used it to time her boiled eggs, she
would chuckle on how at last her husband was useful around the house!

Re: Does inductive reasoning lead to knowledge?

doraymeridt...@optusnet.com.au (dorayme) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:41:33 UT

In article <hi61qt01...@news1.newsguy.com >,
I cannot *remember* what is not true! And it is not true that axioms in
maths or logic or physics are always *made up of rules*.
It is an open question whether it is not *just* a logic game. There are
semantics. And it is not clear what "having a basis in the physical

Re: Does inductive reasoning lead to knowledge?

jclarke.use...@cox.net (J. Clarke) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:13:25 UT

Just wanted to know how you defined the terms. Seems that you've got it
mostly right, however you need to remember that axioms are _always_ made up
rules, in both math and physics. In math, which is really a logic game, the
axioms don't necessarily have any basis in the physical universe, while in

Re: Does inductive reasoning lead to knowledge?

marshall.spi...@gmail.com (Marshall) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:19:01 UT

Seriously? Because that's an interest of mine. What
algorithms are you using? Do you have papers you're
fond of?
I found algorithmically establishing authorship of usenet
posts to be fairly difficult, because I was never able
to get any algorithms to work all that well unless I had
a fairly sizeable body of words; 50,000+ was generally

Re: UK-- coldest winter in 30 years

m...@nnn.com ( n0 b o) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:16:55 UT

Yes, we all know the drill by now ....
Hot weather is caused by �
� GLOBAL WARMING!
� EXTREME WEATHER!
� THE ENVIRONMENT FIGHTING BACK!
Cold weather is caused by �
� a dry air mass and clear skies.
� a cold front.
� nothing in particular.
Warmest Regards
Bon_0
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps

Re: Century winter 2010 in Europe

o...@mmm.com (bn 0o) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:08:12 UT

Yes we know!
Hot weather is caused by .
. GLOBAL WARMING!
. EXTREME WEATHER!
. THE ENVIRONMENT FIGHTING BACK!
Cold weather is caused by .
. a dry air mass and clear skies.
. a cold front.
. nothing in particular.
Warmest Regards
Bon_0
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps

Re: Does inductive reasoning lead to knowledge?

doraymeridt...@optusnet.com.au (dorayme) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:40:14 UT

In article <hi5uar0...@news4.newsguy.com> ,
I don't go around ever saying this - but if I did I would probably mean
it was self-evident or something to be assumed for now, it would depend
on the context. Care to supply one?

Re: Does inductive reasoning lead to knowledge?

jclarke.use...@cox.net (J. Clarke) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:24:22 UT

I see. When you say that something is "axiomatic" do you mean that you are
stating an axiom or do you mean that you are deducing something from axioms?