XPost: talk.politics.guns, nm.general   
   From: biden@sucks.com   
      
   On 11 Dec 2021, The Voice of Reason  posted some   
   news:qvs9rgpcsn9i96eik4j98h5sjg18spirol@4ax.com:   
      
   > On Sat, 11 Dec 2021 08:43:37 -0600, in talk.politics.guns The   
   Voice of   
   > Reason  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Sat, 11 Dec 2021 03:08:24 -0700, in talk.politics.guns Just   
   >>Wondering  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>You offered to accept "information that shows something is true"   
   >>>as the definition of proof.  Obviously that was a lie.   
   >>   
   >>I tire of talking to you because you offend my sensibilities.   
   >>   
   >>But you think entirely in bumper stickers.  I was asking for   
   *your*   
   >>understanding of "proof".  I asked you to describe the level of   
   proof   
   >>you would expect me to provide if I were to accuse you of a crime;   
   >>would you allow me simply to paste the URL of a newspaper article   
   and   
   >>append "QED"?  (*I* certainly wouldn't should the situation be   
   >>reversed.)   
   >>   
   >>That dictionary entry that you copied and pasted so rigorously is   
   >>linguistically correct; now, define "true", please.  While you're   
   at   
   >>it, define "definition"... following that semantic trail, you will   
   >>'meaning'?"   
   >>   
   >>Terms like "love", "happiness", "truth", "justice", et.al. don't   
   lend   
   >>themselves to bumper sticker definitions... neither does "proof".   
   >>You're trying to nail jelly to the wall and you can't do it... I   
   >>can't, either, but I don't call you a liar when I realize that.   
   >>   
   >>******************   
   >>   
   >>The definitions given below are *my* original effort; I wrote   
   them...   
   >>they're not copied from an online source.  BTW, "fair use"   
   copyright   
   >>applies (as if that would have any meaning to you.)   
   >>   
   >>fact such that a person would predicate personal risk upon the   
   >>veracity of the assertion.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>false in the Boolean sense independently of semantic   
   interpretation.   
   >>"Veracity" is related.   
   >>   
   >>"Risk" means the possibility of loss.   
   >>   
   >>***********************   
   >>   
   >>But think for yourself!  Use your brain and quit pasting stuff you   
   >>find on Wiki.  Think independently!  All you're doing is copying   
   other   
   >>people's work... you know, J.W., once you've read 10,000 freshman   
   >>essays (as I certainly have), you've read 'em all... and I can   
   sort   
   >>out independent effort from copy & paste crap very quickly... and   
   all   
   >>I have seen from you is copy & paste.   
   >>   
   >>Now, I just submitted my grades and, since I'm retired and   
   teaching as   
   >>an adjunct, I have no duties until well into January after MLK.   
   Wife   
   >>and I are loading the camper van for a Mexico trip.   
   >>   
   >>While I'm gone, write your own definition of "proof", and no   
   copying!   
   >>I'll expect to read it when I return.   
   >   
   >   
   > El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve, aquí   
   > vinimos!  (Debe haber un buen tonto drugas por aquí en algún   
   lugar.)   
   >   
   > stinkbug monument in the desert, here we come!  (Gotta be some   
   decent   
   > dope around here.)"   
   >   
   > I guess we'll camp at Monahans, TX tonight and visit my old   
   friend,   
   > Guy Clark's grave... OK, his ashes were scattered, but same thing.   
   > Next, we'll get to Organ Pipe Cactus monument, AZ and cross the   
   black   
   > line just south of there.   
   >   
   > You gotta love the desert or stay home!   
   >   
   > You ever smoke pot, JW?   
      
   JW smokes peeders.   
      
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