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Old 11-20-2007, 12:41 AM
Lestat Lestat is offline
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Default Re: these debates remind me of...

Ok, let's take another example:

Somewhere in the world there is a person who will will hear creaks and see a shadow outside their bedroom door tonight that looks like an apparition of some sort. So they can either conlude, a). There is a ghost residing in their house, or, b). There is some other (logical) explanation.

Rest assured, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people across the world reach the wrong conclusion every day through illogical thought and deduction, when they would've done better to just flip a coin to decide whether or not their homes were being haunted by a ghost.

More logical thinking people would of course, do a little research and eventually find the source of the shadows and creaking and be much more likely to (correctly) conclude there in fact, is no ghost in the house and that these hings are being caused by something else such as lighting from a window, or are due to drowsiness from being asleep, etc. And even if they couldn't find an exact cause, they would continue searching before accepting the incorrect notion of their being a ghost.

So I submit that for all intents and purposes, many people would do better by flipping a coin to decide the correct answer to something, rather than using an illogical thought process. Again, it happens every day somewhere in the world where someone is totally and utterly convinced their houses are haunted by ghosts.
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