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Old 06-12-2007   #140 (permalink)
utabintarbo
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Default Re: What are your axioms?

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Originally Posted by yaaarrrgg View Post
"Concede them" ? You mean "assume." This is actually valid. Pick up a book on formal logic and read it.
Quibble. Call it what you will. If you feel better calling it an assumption then do so.

But if you use the conclusion as an assumption, are you not conceding it?

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Originally Posted by yaaarrrgg View Post
I've been around enough to know you are just regurgitating Ann Rand's ideas and passing them off as your own.
You obviously have not been around long enough even to know how to spell her name right. Ayn Rand. This calls into question whether you have enough knowledge to determine if I am merely regurgitating or not. Good day, sir!
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