If a faulty premise always leads to faulty conclusions, how far do you think we have to go back to fix humanity? Should meditation be the baseline for a new kind of science?
>>387143
>meditation be the baseline for a new kind of science
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>faulty premise necessarily leads to faulty conclusions
Not necessarily. You can arrive at the correct conclusion from a faulty premise. You learn that in the logic class.
>>387143
>Not necessarily. You can arrive at the correct conclusion from a faulty premise. You learn that in the logic class.
Prove it.
>>387184
Sure.
>all tigers are fish (false premise)
>no fish have scales (false premise)
Therefore
>no tigers have scales (correct conclusion)
>>387252
I'm too stupid to argue with that. Is he correct?
>>387264
http://academic.csuohio.edu/polen/LC9_Help/1/14ftv.htm
Yes.
>>387321
Yes. You could miscalculate in several places and still arrive at the correct answer.
>>387339
I can't put my finger on what's supposed to be wrong but something doesn't sit with me right. Do you always need to errors to cancel eachother out?
>>387616
I wish they hadn't canceled the logic course two years before I went to uni.
