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Good idea but bad example. Something needs to fulfill a heart's role, but we can live without an appendix just fine.
by joconde 5y ago
Good idea but bad example. Something needs to fulfill a heart's role, but we can live without an appendix just fine.
- blacksmith_tb 5y agoOh sure, it was reductio ad absurdum, just pointing out that the possibility of appendicitis wasn't by itself an argument against its continued existence - I don't know anyone personally who has ever been diagnosed with it...
- Dylan16807 5y ago> just pointing out that the possibility of appendicitis wasn't by itself an argument against its continued existence Except that yes it is an argument against it. Your reduction breaks down because it conflates "a reason" with "all reasons".