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To: grey_whiskers

Is any argument/proof purely empirical?


852 posted on 12/10/2005 11:02:33 AM PST by cornelis
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To: cornelis
Is any argument/proof purely empirical?

Try arguing with your wife :-)

In fact, she doesn't even have to be present to win:

If a man speaks in a forest, and there's no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?

Off the top of my head, no. I think there is always "implicitly" at least a logical frame work, even if it is as simple as A != non-A. But the framework, or the working assumptions, may happen to be tacitly ignored, or completely forgotten about, in some situations. As in the above joke.

Cheers!

862 posted on 12/10/2005 12:19:08 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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