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To: redleghunter

I gave you a syllogism. A syllogism is either valid or invalid. There are no exceptions.

Nothing reveals intellectual dishonesty with greater clarity and certainty that the refusal to answer a yes-or-no question.


1,312 posted on 08/27/2015 11:40:53 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (Beau Biden's funeral, attended by Bp. Malooly, Card. McCarrick, and Papal Nuncio, Abp. Vigano.)
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To: Arthur McGowan
Nothing reveals intellectual dishonesty with greater clarity and certainty that the refusal to answer a yes-or-no question.

So...

...you DO still beat your wife!

1,324 posted on 08/28/2015 1:19:55 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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Nothing reveals intellectual dishonesty with greater clarity and certainty that the refusal to answer a yes-or-no question.

Intellectual honesty would admit that some questions are not answerable with a simple yes or a simple no. Elsie has already pointed out the classic example of that flawed approach.

1,328 posted on 08/28/2015 6:06:13 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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