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(...) No fair claiming "non-native speaker" status--your English is better than some of my coworkers, and at least as good as most of us here. I'm always taken aback when someone from outside the US reveals that he or she isn't a native speaker, (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Robert gets to invalidate logic
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(...) You're equivocating. James has done a good job of fielding your foul balls while I've been away, but I'd like to point out a few additional flaws in your logic. (...) In fact, it is nothing at all like that. It is like this: "If all of The (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Robert gets to invalidate logic (was Re: Science and beliefs (was Re: Alien races))
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(...) You are hedging the issue. He asked you a simple question, "Which is correct?" (I would add an "and why" to it, though) and you avoid it by saying "One of them." This is not answering his question. As well answer the math teacher's question of (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Science and beliefs (was Re: Alien races)
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(...) I think my phrase was quite open, although I'm not a native english speaker and screw up saying the exact words quite frequently. Actually, you seem to be understand since you already answered the question...:-) What I want to learn is, this (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Robert gets to invalidate logic (was Re: Science and beliefs (was Re: Alien races))
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Disregard my last post, I mistyped a few of my sentences (got all my true and false mixed up), I also bothered to run spellcheck this time. (...) Okay let's really break this down first. You have two things, A and B. A is true, but only when B is (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Robert gets to invalidate logic (was Re: Science and beliefs (was Re: Alien races))
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(...) Okay let's really break this down first. You have two things, A and B. A is true, but only when B is false B is true, but only when A is false A is true, and so is B, therefore the premises are false. Okay, that's some standard logic right (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Essential nature of mankind
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(...) Is this the black armband view of history or what! I think it's telling that the present govenrment refuses to apologise for a policy that was so explicitly racist. Apparently Aboriginal settlements were the inspiration for South African (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Science and beliefs (was Re: Alien races)
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(...) Most believers of other faiths have a holy language in which the sacred text is written: Hebrew for Jews, Arabic for Muslims, Sanskrit for Hindus. Here I'm particularly interested in how translation affects this communication between the text (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Geology from Outer Space
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ryan Farrington writes: <much snippage> (...) I'm not going to take on the geological arguments, but I'll have a go at the biology if you like. I'm delighted to see references to scientific journals, which is as far as I (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Carl Sagan's "Cosmos"
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This is my final post regarding Carl Sagan and the "billions and billions" stuff. By the way, in "Cosmos" Sagan does say "billions upon billions." Anyway, this quote comes from Chapter 1 of Sagan's book "Billions and Billions": I never said it. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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