Saturday, April 6, 2013

How Logic Endangers Fact a.k.a. There is No Laundry

Fact isn't real.

Say what?

It isn't real! The definition of fact is "A thing that is indisputably the case." Since nothing can meet this criteria, fact is not real. We therefore cannot use "facts" as supporting evidence to build a case, and that means science has as many holes as religion

But facts are facts, right?

No, that is like saying but "god is god"... how do you know?

Nothing can be indisputable. Things can be true to a very large extent, but if they were indisputable then all scientific theories would be infallible! If scientific theories were infallible, science would be the same as religion! Ack!


I guess there really is no table.


Luckily, this also means there is no laundry for me to do either....
 Come to think of it, this idea is really growing on me!

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Related humour:

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Roland Barthes: The chicken wanted to expose the myth of the road.

Albert Camus: It doesn't matter; the chicken's actions have no meaning except to him.

Richard M. Nixon: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did not cross the road.

M.C.Escher: That depends on which plane of reality the chicken was on at the time.

Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?

Rene Descartes: It had sufficient reason to believe it was dreaming anyway.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.

Paul de Man: The chicken did not really cross the road because one side and the other are not really opposites in the first place.

Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.

For more chicken jokes check out: http://humorarchive.efinke.com/recfeat/chicken.php   
 


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