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• John Howard pulls controversial migration Bill

  Mon Aug 14, 2006
  • I agree. Howard is a cunning enough politician to realise that having a debate exposing the disagreement of his party would look worse than him having to pull the Bill.

• What OS X 10.5 'Leopard' actually needs, is what we should already have.

  Fri Jun 30, 2006
  • What I want is the ability to hit some key combination such as open-apple+shift+right arrow to instantly switch to another 'desktop' or working space.

• Logic 103: The Dark (Dark) Side of Logic

  Fri May 19, 2006
  • Three lefts do...

• Logic 103: The Dark (Dark) Side of Logic

  Fri May 19, 2006
  • Three wrongs make a right perhaps?

• Logic 103: The Dark (Dark) Side of Logic

  Fri May 19, 2006
  • Scientists know that Power = Work / Time (Argumentum ad Verecundiam). It's common knowledge that Knowledge = Power and Time = Money (Argumentum ad Populum). This means: Knowledge = Work / Money (Fallacy of Ambiguity) Rearranging this gives:

• Logic 101

  Tue May 16, 2006
  • @accordingtome: I thought my earlier post made it clear that the inductive justification for induction is circular, just like the deductive justification for deduction. If circularity is so bad, why rely on it to justify deduction?

• Logic 101

  Tue May 16, 2006
  • Even though induction is not logically sound in the same way deduction is doesn't mean it has never been justified. In his book "Fact, Fiction, and Forecast", Nelson Goodman points out that the justification of deduction is based on deductive reasoning and nothing else.