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To: Cultural Jihad
*... but Bush hasn't tightened down on [the borders].

**That's not true. The southern borders have been greatly tightened around all the heavily-populated regions in recent years, and hence the increase of immigration through the desert.

Incorrect, again. The diversion of Illegals to the deserts was the result of Clinton's "Operation Gatekeeper."

A Freeper's Introduction to Rhetoric (Part 7, False Cause and Begging the Question)
      Posted by general_re
On 12/30/2003 11:34:11 AM PST with 27 comments


Introduction to Logic | Irving M. Copi & Carl Cohen
False Cause
It is obvious that any reasoning that relies on treating as the cause of some thing or event what is not really its cause must be seriously mistaken. But
often we are tempted to suppose, or led to suppose, that we understand some specific cause-and-effect relation when in fact we do not. The nature of the connection between cause and effect, and how we determine whether such a connection is present or absent, are central problems of inductive logic and scientific method. These problems are discussed in detail in Part Four of this book. Presuming the reality of...

Fallacious argumentation from you, again.


276 posted on 01/04/2004 11:07:03 AM PST by Sabertooth (Have a Happy New Year, Freepers)
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To: Sabertooth
Hey, that Copi and Cohen book was the textbook for my Symbolic Logic course in college! fantastic course.
373 posted on 01/04/2004 8:30:34 PM PST by Proud2BAmerican
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To: Sabertooth
Hey, that Copi and Cohen book was the textbook for my Symbolic Logic course at Grove City College! fantastic course.
374 posted on 01/04/2004 8:30:50 PM PST by Proud2BAmerican
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