OT:Re: Fedora 18, future isn't too good as it seems :-<

Charles Zeitler cfzeitler at gmail.com
Sat Nov 3 00:15:11 UTC 2012


On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Charles Zeitler <cfzeitler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > So what you're saying is, it's not valid for me to assume that you're a
>> > member of homo sapiens?
>> >
>> yes. given a set of assumptions, valid ( or invalid ) deductions and
>> arguments
>> can be made- but the assumptions *themselves* are neither valid nor
>> invalid.
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> Other than to smugness, this pedantry is not really useful.  If you insist,
> you can read it as "that's not a reasonable assumption to make".
>
> Rahul
>

ok, dude, what makes an assumption reasonable? unreasonable?

cfzeitler

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