Do you still call it a proof?

No, it's just evidence for one view or another.

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So is it a fallacy or not a fallacy? Or is it a fallacy to think it's a fallacy?

The way I had heard it (that if you want to prove that all ravens are black you could travel the world seeking out all the ravens you could, or you could sit in your study drinking gin and tonics and noting all the non-black non-ravens you could see, either way was fine) didn't imply that it was a fallacy, just non-intuitive.

Sad that I have no gin nor tonic just now. I can occasionally see ravens in my yard, though. No writing desk, alas.

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I think mixing boolean logic and evidence is just asking for trouble, despite how much I like them both. Me, I'd just write "black" into the raven definition and be done with it.

Jesse, I get the article up until the estimation of population paragraph quoted. For intersections and preventing database surfing, it seems fair enough.

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Michelle Trachtenberg's all grown up. At least a bit.

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The flopsy asleep picture on Tom's shoulder? So darn cute. Parents are freaky and off-putting but a really cute darn pictures.

Yes, that picture kinda made me like Tom Cruise, again. Father-baby pictures do that to me. It's a plot.

1) I don't have the funny syphilis. 2) I don't have lobsters. 3) I am not carrying/did not father the anti-christ.

In a survey of 25,000 peole, 33% select 1, 60% select 2 and 7% select 3.

How does this tell you the prevalence of any or all of the three?

Well, if you trust your list, then 2/3 have the funny syphilis, 40% have lobsters, and 93% are spawning the antichrist.

The thing I found confusing though ita (and Gar, is this what threw you, too?) is that they would ask people to put a check next to one vd they didn't have. I don't have any. If I only check lobsters, you can't assume I'm a syphilis ridden satan spawner, funny or un.

Oh, and now I see Jesse already asked that and you answered, and you're pain ridden, so ignore it. I'm just leaving it there for the alliteration.

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Cindy, they're not asking about who you are. Or even, in specific, who you aren't. And that's where the migraine leaves me.

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I do get that part. But they're only asking you to check off "one" you don't have, and it seems they should want to know all that you don't have, to figure out how many people do have some. I don't have a migraine, just a lack of understanding, so please know I don't expect you to give me an epiphany.

In other news, I am irrationally opposed to MT posing for sexy photos, or showing her butt in movies.

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She is so not leaving the house like that. She has to go back to her room and change into something decent right now.

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See? Tom knows. And it's not that she's not beautiful. She is a great looking woman, but she's the little sister and there are rules, borders, and end zones. Showing her butt in a movie is outside the freaking stadium.

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Is this a raven? [link]

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