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To: syriacus
I must have missed the article about the logic error you are discussing.

The statement "I think, therefore I am" IS logically equivalent to "I am not, therefore I do not think".

Just the same way "I am {Felos, Greer, MS}, therefore I am evil" is logically equivalent to "I am not evil, therefore I am not {Felos, Greer, MS}". It is NOT equivalent to "I am not {Felos, Greer, MS}, therefore I am not evil".

1,016 posted on 03/30/2005 4:52:27 AM PST by wildandcrazyrussian
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To: wildandcrazyrussian
What you say about Felos, Greer, and MS could be true. And I think, facts exposing their evil intentions will eventually come out.

Statement B, "I don't think, therefore, I am not"
cannot be proven true from Statement A, "I think, therefore, I am,"
because Statement B is merely the inverse of the Cartesian Statement A.

1,019 posted on 03/30/2005 4:59:58 AM PST by syriacus (Greer honors alleged death wishes of mentally unsound, bulimic women by starving them to death.)
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To: wildandcrazyrussian
I must have missed the article about the logic error you are discussing.
The statement "I think, therefore I am" IS logically equivalent to "I am not, therefore I do not think".


See #973. You have reversed premise and conclusion.
1,022 posted on 03/30/2005 5:01:26 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
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