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To: Kevmo
Occam's Razor (that's how it's spelled) is about drawing the most likely conclusion, often the true one but not necessarily so... linear reasoning is both deduction and inductive.

But lawyers reason by Edward's Razor (John Edwards). That is, life is a lot more pleasant and lucrative when you have someone to blame for disappointment. You want to blame the AMA for your failure to get into med school. I'm no fan of the AMA, but they had nothing to do with your failure.

The AMA is not unlike any other institution, it exists to serve itself and its officers. Currently it is greedily exploiting Obama's willingness to let those officers get rich and powerful from a piece of software. It is chrony capitalism at work. The AMA supported Obama care, and Obama helps force doctors to use the AMA's software.

41 posted on 04/24/2013 6:10:16 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Mamzelle

Occam’s Razor (that’s how it’s spelled)
***Triviality is the sign of a weak mind. From Wikipedia:

Occam’s razor (also written as Ockham’s razor from William of Ockham,

linear reasoning is both deduction and inductive.
***Please, please take a writing class. Are you trying to say it is both deductive and inductive? Or... both deduction and induction? The latter is more stupid than the former, so I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. Basically you are engaging the classic fallacy of obfuscation, not addressing the matter at hand and diverting to a different subject. The matter at hand is that this is an inductive area of pursuit. You can try to plug the square peg of “linear reasoning” into the round hole of inductive reasoning but you’re not even close to accomplishing that goal.

But lawyers reason by Edward’s Razor (John Edwards).
***Again, the classic fallacy of obfuscation.

That is, life is a lot more pleasant and lucrative when you have someone to blame for disappointment.
***classic fallacy of poisoning the well

You want to blame the AMA for your failure to get into med school.
***Another classic fallacy, arguing from silence, as well as ignorance. I NEVER wanted to get into med school. I wanted and got into engineering school. So, you don’t know what you’re talking about, and you’re proceeding from ignorance and the silence (of not knowing) of the evidence. It’s amazing how many fallacies you have piled up in this short discourse.

I’m no fan of the AMA, but they had nothing to do with your failure.
***Since I never failed to get into med school, your argument is utterly moot and, once again, employs classic fallacies.

The AMA is not unlike any other institution, it exists to serve itself and its officers.
***Like any other institution, if it steps over the line and starts working against its original purpose, it will destroy itself. Like the bible says, “a house divided cannot stand”.

Currently it is greedily exploiting Obama’s willingness to let those officers get rich and powerful from a piece of software.
***You’re focused on one piece of software rather than 60 years of advocacy. It is but a minor exception in light of those 60 years of effort.

It is chrony capitalism at work. The AMA supported Obama care, and Obama helps force doctors to use the AMA’s software.
***The AMA got cornered into allowing Obamacare to pass. The reason why they were cornered is that they allowed the costs of medicine to rise so high and so fast that the guvmint stepped in. 40,000 foot view. From that high up, your software example is invisible.


42 posted on 04/24/2013 8:21:35 PM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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