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I don't think that's a fair criticism of deductive reasoning. A rational argument should absolutely try and drill down into assumptions. We might accept some a
by scoopertrooper 5y ago
I don't think that's a fair criticism of deductive reasoning. A rational argument should absolutely try and drill down into assumptions.
We might accept some assumptions for the sake of argument, but that doesn't take them off the table for unpicking once the main argument is made.
- prox 5y agoI noticed it depends a lot on the actual expertise of the commenter. Some are really high end, and comments follow to be interested. If it’s not, you see counterpoints arise fairly quickly.