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| StillTrying:
Everyone is a beginner in some/many subjects. Meanwhile, where does an expert post a beginners question. :) |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: wilfred on February 24, 2018, 07:31:26 pm --- --- Quote from: Cerebus on February 24, 2018, 03:49:36 pm --- --- Quote from: wilfred on February 24, 2018, 06:39:27 am ---Has this thread gone a bit off the rails into the territory of reductio ad absurdum? --- End quote --- That phrase doesn't mean what you think it means. Reductio ad absurdum is where you prove or disprove a proposition by demonstrating that it can be reduced to an absurd conclusion. e.g. "There is no smallest positive rational number, because if there were, then it could be divided by two to get a smaller one." --- End quote --- It was a pun. I am well aware of the mathematical proof technique. The thread has, as often happens, diminishes into an argument about absurdly small details of minute tangential relevance. The proof technique reveals a logical inconsistency, but I use it to highlight logical inconsistencies that do nothing to improve understanding. --- End quote --- A pun, by its very nature, is supposed to be humorous. "... I use it to highlight logical inconsistencies that do nothing to improve understanding" - can you just point out where in your original message you did that, or is that explanation just sophistry? If you didn't know what it really meant, no one will think less of you - unless you try to cover that up by bluffing your way out. --- Quote from: wilfred on February 24, 2018, 07:31:26 pm --- --- Quote from: Cerebus on February 24, 2018, 03:49:36 pm ---I think it's a bit rich calling for a moderate respectful tone immediately after posting a remark that indicates the exact opposite of respect: "I think less of them for it." --- End quote --- Aren't you confusing cause and effect? There is a difference between showing respect and having respect. It follows from the word respect being both a verb and a noun. --- End quote --- A respectful tone is one that doesn't stoop to insult, which you were parlously close to, if not already at. As I say, a bit rich, and attempting to recover by further sophistry doesn't exactly cover you in glory. |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: StillTrying on February 24, 2018, 08:25:49 pm ---Everyone is a beginner in some/many subjects. --- End quote --- The older I get the more aware I become of my astounding ignorance. Amazing really, because when I was 16 I knew exactly how to fix everything that was wrong with the world. |
| Alex Eisenhut:
--- Quote from: Lightages on February 24, 2018, 04:48:11 am ---OK, word police, make a list of words that everyone on the Earth must avoid using on this forum. Remember if you use any of the words I have listed, you are being intentionally offensive and deserve to have your account suspended. --- End quote --- Apostrophe plurals and misuse of it's should be on there... >:D |
| paulca:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on February 24, 2018, 08:54:09 pm --- --- Quote from: StillTrying on February 24, 2018, 08:25:49 pm ---Everyone is a beginner in some/many subjects. --- End quote --- The older I get the more aware I become of my astounding ignorance. Amazing really, because when I was 16 I knew exactly how to fix everything that was wrong with the world. --- End quote --- |
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