Buffy ,'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Not if the question said "pick one you don't have." What if I only have the antichrist?
Well, yeah. And if the question said "which of these is the funniest" the answers mean something else again. But my pain-laced understanding of the article is that the question says "Check the ones you don't have."
I think that would be hard to fit into the melody and/or rhyming scheme.
What about the Heartbreak of Psoriasis?
I didn't read the article, just Typo's post, which said:
Dr Esponda gives the example of a negative survey in which respondents are asked to tick the box of one sexually transmitted disease they do not have.
Just one. Apparently.
tommyrot's link a while back gave me instant allergies.
Bones: So glad that Booth got his crap together. Also ack on the shaken baby stuff!
Justice: This show's ok, but I feel like SpyDaddy is yelling all the time. Don't know that I like that.
Also.... MUSHROOM MUSHROOM. t /earworm
Jesse, I'll get back to you when I've caught up on the whole thing. I think it's a dumb idea, but not because it can't work (though if it's based on Hempel's Paradox, well, does it even have to?) but because it looks no better than the normal way.
msbelle I am so happy for you! October is so soon! Yay yay yay!
Jesse, I'll get back to you when I've caught up on the whole thing.
No need -- I don't actually care.
It follows that every observation of something which is not black and also not a raven is evidence that ravens are black. This is patently absurd.
I don't think that this is absurd. Perhaps it illustrates the difference between formal logic and the way that science works in the real world. We can never really prove that all ravens are black, because we can never find all ravens. Each additional black raven provides very little additional evidence. Sometimes it is more efficient to look for birds that resemble ravens in all other respects but are not black, and see if any of them are ravens. Unlike formal logical conclusions, the conclusions of empirical science are always provisional. Nothing is ever proven for all time. It's just a matter of putting a hypothesis at risk in as many creative ways as you can think of. Sometimes going at it backwards can help.
Nothing is ever proven for all time
Do you still call it a proof?
Do you still call it a proof?
No, it's just evidence for one view or another.