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Author Topic:   Is Logic a Valid Science in the establishment of ID as Scientific.?
Dawn Bertot
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Message 272 of 312 (438186)
12-03-2007 9:52 AM
Reply to: Message 261 by crashfrog
12-02-2007 2:50 PM


Re: Getting to the end, my friend.
Euclid's fifth axiom.
Self-evidently true, or self-evidently false? Or not self-evident at all?
Answer the question, DB. I know you know what axiom I'm talking about because I've told you, twice.
I am not being coy or evassive here. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THIS IS. PLEASE SET IT OUT AND EXPLAN IT. D Bertot.
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Dawn Bertot
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Message 273 of 312 (438187)
12-03-2007 10:03 AM
Reply to: Message 262 by RAZD
12-02-2007 2:54 PM


Re: No, no! Backward! 1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Back! Now do-si-do! Promenade Left!
Razd writes
False.
The question is whether it is a self-evident truth and not an assumption. The truth or falseness of the claim does not enter into the discussion. It is an assumption: we assume these truths to be self-evident for the purpose of the argument. That is the premise.
Your conflation of this with invalidation just shows your lack of understanding of basic logic form and structure -- the science of logic you so touted at the beginning.
Enjoy.
Absolutley and completely false. I have demonstrated how ASSUMPTIONS, validate the axiomm, not question or just assume its propositons. Again, it says to the axiom, now listen, 'You are sel-evident, (are you still listening),BECAUSE YOU REQUIRE NO PROOF. That means INCONTRAVERTABLE, NOT EVEN REQUIRING A TEST, if one wanted to do this. I further demonstrated this by the simple axiom of "Dead men tell not tales." To which, even your replies were silly and completley ridiculous
Your conflation of this with invalidation just shows your lack of understanding of basic logic form and structure -- the science of logic you so touted at the beginning.
And you COMPLETe unwillingness to be objective on even the simplest of points, demonstrates the position I have maintained since this started. For example you refusal to admit, that your science method, is not the only one on how one understands facts. No I understand Logic, just not your brand of it. Get it. D bertot.

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 274 of 312 (438190)
12-03-2007 10:10 AM
Reply to: Message 259 by ringo
12-02-2007 2:02 PM


Re: No, no! Backward! One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward! Now do-si-do!
Ringo writes.
Not at all. An axiom is an axiom only if it is agreed on and only for the purpose of the discussion where it is agreed on. Whether it is true/false or valid/invalid is irrelevant. It's the agreement for the purpose of argument - the acceptance by the parties involved - that makes it axiomatic.
Do I need everyones approval to know that dead people talk to anyone? Do I need everyones approval that the law of gravity is true?If you are not going to be objective, atleast try and be honesty and REASONABLE. D Bertot

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 275 of 312 (438195)
12-03-2007 10:22 AM
Reply to: Message 258 by Dawn Bertot
12-02-2007 1:46 PM


Re: No, no! Backward! One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward! Now do-si-do!
RAZD WRITES
Are you telling me to assume that it is true for the sake of your argument? Now, I thought you were a christian, and I thought christians believed in an "after-life" ... and then there is the whole issue of ghosts and seances ... plus any number of religious beliefs involving communications with ancestors. Personally I don't believe any of them are true, but this is just an assumption on my part: I can't say I am 100% absolutely positively sure that no such communication is possible.
Try again.
If you are not going to be objective, atleast try and be RESONABLE. People that are dead are not alive, even if you think they can come back to life, while they are dead they tell you nothing. Again no one is willing to answer the axiom in its context, just like that of Spock. Now your admission, that you dont believe any of them are true, is the closest you have come to saying I cant answer your argument Dawn. Just be a big person and say , You cannot. This is what I meant earlier when I said, when people get into a situation they cannot respond to , they start getting plain silly. Your a reasonable person, if you are not going to be reasonable with me, atleast be honest with yourself later on Enjoy, RAZD. D Bertot

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 276 of 312 (438199)
12-03-2007 10:42 AM
Reply to: Message 257 by RAZD
12-02-2007 1:39 PM


Re: Getting to the end, my friend.
There are no self evident truths that allow anyone to move forward with 100% absolute and positive confidence. The most we can end up with is a tentative assumption of truth. Not (objective) fact. Sometimes we can have a high confidence in those tentative assumptions of truth, and sometimes we know they are very shaky because of all the unknowns that have to be assumed (like Rumsfield's "known unknowns").
We take the logical arguments as far as they can go, and then - if we are interested in their relation to reality - we test them against the (objective) evidence we can find of reality with (natural and social, scientific method) science to see if they stand up to scrutiny. We check to see if the conclusions based on axioms can be considered valid or sound or invalid or false based on that evidence. We eliminate concepts that are invalidated (contradicted) by the evidence to end up with an understanding of reality. Even then the most we can end up with is a tentative assumption of truth.
Message 248
It seems fitting with the above statement to make some concluding remarks here and wrap this up. Because it is with the above statement, which shows me that a person has basically lost the ability to be objective in any real sense. For example, "Even then the most we can end up with is a tenative assumption of truth".. This statement plainly says I refuse to see truth or the obvious force and reality of a Fact., (ie "dead men and the law of gravity., etc,) even if I cannot refute it or see its truth. How do reason with such a person.
Having been on this website, it has reminded me of being on a trip and having stopped in a certain town and visiting with its people. Thank you for you hospitality and for the most part I think we have all learned somthing.
If I do happen to see you on the other side I hope we recognize each other, so we can reminisce about these details. You have all been great and I hope you find the answers you are looking for. Death is soon for some not far away for any. In the words of Wallace I Matson at the end of the Warren-Matson Debate, Happy hunting and with this I BID YOU FAREWELL.
Mr. Dawn A Bertot

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 281 of 312 (438239)
12-03-2007 2:37 PM
Reply to: Message 280 by ringo
12-03-2007 2:06 PM


Re: No, no! Backward! One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward! Now do-si-do!
Yes.
That's an excellent example of my point. If there was significant disagreement, it wouldn't be an axiom. Logical reasons why dead people can't talk are no substitute for empirical evidence that dead people don't talk.
"Dead men tell no tales" is an axiom only because most of us believe it.
Do I need everyones approval that the law of gravity is true?
Yes. If there was significant disagreement, it wouldn't be a law.
Ok, I coulndt resist, Maybe one more try here. The above statement is without a doubt, the most LUDICROUS, IDIOTIC AND PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WILLFUL STUPIDITY, THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN OR HEARD. Do you mean to tell me that, before anyone was around, the principle of Gravitiy was not a FACT OR A LAW. Do you mean to tell me that before the first animal or person died, it was not a law, principle or fact that they were finished communicating. Now anyone out there listening or watching can see the kind of Stupidity that I am dealing with here. So if there is significant disagreement that the world is round, then that means that it is not already a fact that it is already round.. Really friends think about what you are saying, Geees
FACT: "Something that is REAL AND EXISTS."
AXIOM: "A self-Evident TRUTH, that needs no PROOF."
Unbelievable, incomprehensable and completely stupid, is the only way to describe this kind of, lack of objectivity and honesty.
D Bertot

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Dawn Bertot
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Joined: 11-23-2007


Message 283 of 312 (438248)
12-03-2007 2:59 PM
Reply to: Message 278 by crashfrog
12-03-2007 12:24 PM


Re: Getting to the end, my friend.
If a line segment intersects two straight lines forming two interior angles on the same side that sum to less than two right angles, then the two lines, if extended indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles sum to less than two right angles.
I will admit up front I have no idea what is being said here. Ill make a deal with you crashfrog. If you put this in simple understandable language, I will give you a honest answer as to if it is or is not an axiom. Deal. D Bertot

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Dawn Bertot
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Posts: 3571
Joined: 11-23-2007


Message 285 of 312 (438252)
12-03-2007 3:07 PM
Reply to: Message 282 by ringo
12-03-2007 2:55 PM


Re: No, no! Backward! One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward! Now do-si-do!
How could there be a "law, principle or fact" about something that had never happened?
Listen up, when it did happen, it at that moment became a fact, truth or principle, without any consensus from anyone.
Now you're confusing facts with axioms. The shape of the earth is a fact whether anybody knows it or not. It isn't an axiom unless it is accepted as such. "Roundness" is axiomatic if we agree on "roundness" for the sake of this discussion.
(In fact, of course, the earth is not "round".)
No, you are failing to see that axioms are by the very nature of the case, are based in FACTS, with or without any consenses.
Dead men tell no tales, and no particle of EVIDENCE you could provide would refute this axiom. Go back and look at the silly responses that have been offered. D Bertot

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 286 of 312 (438253)
12-03-2007 3:11 PM
Reply to: Message 284 by PurpleYouko
12-03-2007 3:07 PM


Re: Getting to the end, my friend.
realize you are talking to Crashfrog but here is a nice example of Euclid's 5th axiom
The axiom states that if angles a and b total less than 180 degrees then the two lines, line1 and line2, if extrapolated upward far enough, will eventually meet.
In the diagram they are parallel
Your still way above me on this. Put it in simple english. I have to go to work now. Try to do this simple task for me. D Bertot

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Dawn Bertot
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Posts: 3571
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Message 297 of 312 (438364)
12-04-2007 9:49 AM
Reply to: Message 296 by Dr Adequate
12-03-2007 9:01 PM


Re: Summary
Well, Dawn hasn't ever gotten round to his point about ID, and we haven't managed to educate him as to the meaning of the words he's using. So it's been pretty much a scoreless draw.
In the Bertot vs Everyone on this web-thread deabate: the Atheist, Agnostic, Evolutionist and Humanist, have UTTERLY failed to do the following.
They have failed to:
1. Demonstrate that any specific science is exclusive in the fact gathering process. And to demonstrate that the so-called 'scientific method', is the only process to understand the real world or to gather facts from its process
2. To demonstrate that an axiom, with the applied science of deductive reasoing is invalid as a fact gathering process.
3. To demonstrate that axioms by definition and application are not truth an fact in reality.
4. Failed to show why "self-evident" does not mean requires no Proof.
5. They failed to show why the axioms I presented were not in fact true axioms, other than chainging scenarios and words to fit in an answer.
6. Failed to show why true axioms are only assumed to be true and not axioms in Fact by definition and correspondence to the real world.
7. Failed to provide another alternative to the example of the axiom for the source of all things in existence.. Some didnt try, some tried and failed, some admitted they couldnt, others gave up.
8. Failed to show why the axiom of the three possibilites was not exacally applicable to the Proposition.
9. Failure to refute its its truthfulness and application, on their part to the real world and this proposition, demonstrates its validity.
10. They failed to show why the axiom I presented is not a method of eshtablishing ID independent of religious thought or ideas.
11. Thus they have failed to show why Creationism or ID should not be included as a sceintific method in the curriculum in classrooms.
D Bertot.

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 298 of 312 (438366)
12-04-2007 10:07 AM
Reply to: Message 294 by crashfrog
12-03-2007 7:33 PM


Re: Getting to the end, my friend.
DB you're looking at an axiom that they cover in 8th-grade math. It's not hard to understand. Euclid's fifth axiom is sometimes called the "parallel postulate" because it's a statement about lines and whether or not they're parallel based on the angles at which they intersect a third line.
It's your contention that an axiom is a self-evident truth. If you can't even understand this axiom, doesn't it prove that it's not particularly self-evident? And doesn't that prove that you're wrong about what an axiom is?
No. Absolutley not. I took this to work with me and I studied it and I kept saying to myself, why is Euclid's Postulate not a valid axiom. Granted I dont understand from a mathmatics standpoint all its terms. It fell on me like a ton of bricks. Because its only a postualation and contemplation, that it is not a Axiom because it does not correspond to any specific thing that is real, or that it does not have application in the real world to physical things. For this reason it is simply a contemplation or hypothesis not a true AXIOM.
One can do the samething by imagining a ZERO, with zeros behind it and in front of it streching to infinity, but that doesnt mean it is a real thing, because it does not have application to any physical thing, like a true axiom does.
For example the axiom I provided of the 3 three and only three possibilites correspondes to to physical things that truely do exist and of course their existence requires an explanation in the form of an axiom. thus by a simple application of deductive reasoning one is able to establish a true axiom that correspondes to physical things.
D bertot.

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 299 of 312 (438367)
12-04-2007 10:10 AM
Reply to: Message 295 by RAZD
12-03-2007 8:59 PM


Re: Getting to the end, my friend.
Now if you want to come down off your high-horse and discuss your argument for ID, we can do that -- on a new thread, one that starts off with the premises that the science of logic tells us that logic:
Now I know I have done this beyond any shadow of a doube. But if you want to do it somewhere else that is fine with me.
D Bertot.

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 300 of 312 (438368)
12-04-2007 10:33 AM
Reply to: Message 293 by RAZD
12-03-2007 6:35 PM


Re: Summary - What the Science of Logic Can and Cannot Do
Thus you cannot conclude a logical "fact" that applies to the objective world of reality -- the objective reality that is studied by science. You cannot make up reality, and all logical arguments are just intellectual exercises in imagination. You cannot make up a fact.
The basic problem with applying logic to the evidence of reality is that reality does not care about your logic, and that when there is a conflict, a contradiction, then no matter how good your argument was, it is invalidated. That is one reason science is always tentative about all conclusions.
The above statement is simply Ludicrous. It starts with a false premise that nothing is really real, therefore it begs the question as to wheather a FACT IS a REAL THING. Again, you dont need anyones approval for a fact to be real. And you can establish its validity in truth by the simple use of an axiom and deuctive reasoning.
Enjoy.
D bertot

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 305 of 312 (438391)
12-04-2007 12:16 PM
Reply to: Message 303 by Percy
12-04-2007 11:27 AM


Re: Summarizing it.
Dawn, the only reason it seems as if it's you against everybody is because everybody but you is using the correct definition of axiom.
To repeat again the bottom line, ID can only become accepted science by the same route as all other science, by providing supporting evidence within an interpretive framework that that is sufficiently cogent and persuasive to become accepted by the scientific community. Merely declaring ID axiomatic doesn't make it so, and such rhetorical approaches aren't going to convince anyone.
Wow I did no know we got to go past 300. Is is surprising you fellas cannot even go by your own rules.
Once again for you percy. AXIOM: Self-evident truth that needs no proof. If you have a problem with the dictionary, please write your own.
ID and its methods were an was an accepted science, (Fact, axiom and deductive reasoning), long before the so-caled 'scientific method'.
Please enjoy
D bertot

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Dawn Bertot
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Message 307 of 312 (438394)
12-04-2007 12:19 PM
Reply to: Message 302 by PurpleYouko
12-04-2007 11:20 AM


Re: Summarizing it.
An axiom is a sentence or proposition that is not proved or demonstrated and is considered as self-evident or as an initial necessary consensus for a theory building or acceptation. Therefore, it is taken for granted as true, and serves as a starting point for deducing and inferencing other (theory dependent) truths.
And of course this is an unwarrented conclusion that does not follow from even the very definition provided. Think about it. he added this to support his thinking.
No, Please enjoy.
D Bertot

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