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Agnosticism is more LOGICAL

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Bill Gates

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Jul 7, 2003, 2:58:00 PM7/7/03
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"Wen-King Su" <wen-...@myri.com> wrote in message
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> In a previous article "Bill Gates" <bi...@microsaused.com> writes:
> :
> ;
> :"Wen-King Su" <wen-...@myri.com> wrote in message
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> :> In a previous article "Bill Gates" <bi...@microsaused.com> writes:
> ;>
> :> ;> You're certainly claiming that *someone* is able to falsify "There
is
> ;> :> no X" in any case.
> :> ;
> ;> :That is not what is being said, knucklehead.
> :>
> ;> What is being said, of course, is that every X has demonstrateable
> :> characteristcs.
> ;
> :Not at all, since some X do not exist, they are just part of somebody's
> ;delusional disorder, so they do not have any "demonstrateable
> :characteristics" [sic] at all.
>
> Bad logic. Prove that because some X do not exist as they are part of
> somebody's delusional disorder, it must be that all X that is not
> somebody's delusional disorder must have demonstratable characteristics.

Well duh! If a thing exists, it exists as everything else exists, as part of
the web of relationships between everything that exists, eh?

Wen-King Su

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Jul 7, 2003, 4:47:53 PM7/7/03
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In a previous article "Bill Gates" <bi...@microsaused.com> writes:
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That is not what was asked. Prove that because some X do not exist as

Virgil

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Jul 7, 2003, 10:50:28 PM7/7/03
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in article YojOa.59538$926.7023@sccrnsc03, Bill Gates at
bi...@microsaused.com wrote on 7/7/03 12:58:

> Well duh!

The quality of intellect represented by that remark is typical of its
author.

Bill Gates

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Jul 8, 2003, 10:28:41 AM7/8/03
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"Wen-King Su" <wen-...@myri.com> wrote in message
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the web of relationships between everything that exists, eh? If you cannot
demonstrate your particular hypothetical X so that "There is no X is
falsifiED that is not my problem, it is yours. That does not alter the fact
that "There is no X is falsifiABLE" in any case. Just demonstrate your X.

Why would you object to that if you know that your particular X is something
real, something about which you can demonstrate how you know it exists?


Wen-King Su

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Jul 8, 2003, 10:39:43 AM7/8/03
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In a previous article "Bill Gates" <bi...@microsaused.com> writes:
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:"Wen-King Su" <wen-...@myri.com> wrote in message
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Again, that is not what is asked. You made an assertion that required
proof. Prove that because some X do not exist as they are part of

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