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To: DaveLoneRanger; Right Wing Professor; longshadow; PatrickHenry
("Right Wing Profesor is a toad. All toads are small. Therefore, Right Wing Professor is small" is a logical statement) but entirely erroneous based on the assumptions.

I have a better one for you:

DaveLoneRanger is an idiot. Liberals are idiots. Therefore, DaveLoneRanger is a liberal.

is a logical statement

No, Dave, it is not a "logical statement". It is a logical fallacy. If you had more than an 8th grade education you would understand that.

However, like most ID / creationists, you have to accuse us of being athiests because you cannot compete, even marginally, on an intellectual or educational basis.

We can debate the evolution / creationism issue. Some people can even do it intelligently. But here is something that is an incontrovertible fact. DaveLoneRanger is not the equal of RightWingProfessor by any measure: mental, moral, or physical.

177 posted on 09/22/2005 2:30:48 PM PDT by 2ndreconmarine
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To: 2ndreconmarine

You're much too kind, but alas, I doubt I could have been a marine.


178 posted on 09/22/2005 2:36:36 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: 2ndreconmarine; DaveLoneRanger; All
("Right Wing Profesor is a toad. All toads are small. Therefore, Right Wing Professor is small" is a logical statement) but entirely erroneous based on the assumptions.

It is a logical form. But this is an argument, not a statement. The conclusion is false, based on false premises, with a valid form (A-B, B-C, A-C).

Fairly easy stuff.
228 posted on 09/22/2005 8:11:08 PM PDT by Das Outsider (Contact your Congressman and Senators today about the Able Danger investigation.)
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