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> when you start talking about 'dangerous' or 'causes cancer' or 'harms children' etc there is a wide berth for rational disagreement That doesn't matter as lo
by antidesitter 8y ago
> when you start talking about 'dangerous' or 'causes cancer' or 'harms children' etc there is a wide berth for rational disagreement
That doesn't matter as long as the meaning of words remains the same throughout the argument.
- fzeroracer 8y agoThe meaning of the word can remain the same, but the way something has the property of said word can vary drastically. As a thought experiment: Dangerous things should be banned. Riding your bike without a helmet is dangerous. Doing cocaine is dangerous. Driving a car is dangerous. Ergo, those three items listed above should be banned. Are all of these actions equally dangerous? The answer almost everyone would give is no. That's where the bias enters into play. The definition of the word hasn't changed at all throughout.
- antidesitter 8y agoDo you understand the concept of "logical validity" [1]? The argument you stated is valid if "dangerous" means exactly the same thing in each and every clause. That doesn't mean the premises (in particular the first one) are true. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(logic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(logic)
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