They seem to invade like a stealthy virus.
For example asking the question:
"Why?"
Is itself a complex question.
Fallacies of Complex Questions
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Inductive reasoning is for the future, and deductive reasoning is for past events. If you are postulating that there is no past, then induction would be all presumption, as you said; but how can the past be any less real than the future? I say it can't.xerosaburu wrote:All arguments are only artificially deductive as all is inductive.Elizabeth Isabelle wrote:Well now you have given it a context, and here it is deduction, not presumption.
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You say one is for the past and one the future without argument.Elizabeth Isabelle wrote:Inductive reasoning is for the future, and deductive reasoning is for past events. If you are postulating that there is no past, then induction would be all presumption, as you said; but how can the past be any less real than the future? I say it can't.xerosaburu wrote:All arguments are only artificially deductive as all is inductive.Elizabeth Isabelle wrote:Well now you have given it a context, and here it is deduction, not presumption.