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Modeeb  4 stars
Title: A Ghost In The Machine
Posts: 1,258
Registered: 2002-4-19 10:48:36
Yes Bonk. Here is the inductive argument for your position:

"Peter is a man and is dead
and
Michael is a man and is dead
and
John is a man and is dead.
Therefore, man is mortal."

"The force of the argument depends on the number or quantity of facts known through experience.

The method of arguing through analogy adds a qualititative element (i.e. that which is of intrinsic importance to the quantitative)." Unknown author

The top argument adds analogy to induction.

 

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__Bonk__  5 stars
Posts: 5,122
Registered: 2009-7-25 03:04:52
in the face of reality some logical argruments fail

 

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Modeeb  4 stars
Title: A Ghost In The Machine
Posts: 1,258
Registered: 2002-4-19 10:48:36
Inductive arguments are never conclusive. Even though the sun rises every morning, we cannot say for certain: The sun will rise tomorrow.

I accept all of the limitations for uncertainty with respect to the argument for immortality.

 

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Ptilk  4 stars
Title: Creepy old pirate
Posts: 2,359
Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
Every instant in time happens forever.

Time does not flow, it's constant, we just perceive it incompletely (just like everything else)

Thus, everything that ever was will always be.


Even that time you did that thing you wish you could forget.

Sorry.

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