Text 11294, 65 rader
Skriven 2013-11-21 16:39:28 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 11291 av Lee Lofaso (2:203/2)
Ärende: Old McDonald
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 Brer Lee Lofaso wrote to Brer Roy Witt about Old McDonald:

 LL>>> Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.

 LL>>> For those who do not understand Latin, here it is in English -

 LL>>> "After this, therefore because of this."

 LL>>> Your turn, Mr. Witt (not even google can help you now).  :)

 RW>> Google not needed.

 LL> In your case, it wouldn't help anyway.

It's good that you can recognize superiority in your debate opponents.

 RW>> It means: the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession
 RW>> implies a causal relation.

 LL> Natives in Papua New Guinea believe in the magical powers of their
 LL> local witch doctor.  As a result, the natives get well when the witch
 LL> doctor does his thing.  If it were not for their belief in the witch
 LL> doctor's powers, the natives would not get well.

I know a native Papuan of Dutch descent who would disagree with your
assessment.  His mother was a physician in Papua during and after WW2,
married to his Shell Oil Executive, dutchman father.

 LL> In their eyes, the witch doctor's powers are as powerful, or more

No one of any consequence cares.

 LL> We get well because we believe in the powers of our doctors.  Not
 LL> that our doctors have any power at all.

True that one has to believe in their doctor, but also have the tumerity
to give credit to themselves for withstanding the onslaught of desease at
the same time. I think you've failed in that regard.

 LL> Because we believe.  Those who do not believe go to their deaths, or
 LL> are dead already.

If that were true, I would have been dead ages ago. I believe in self-help
as well as self-healing, which must work, as I'm still here.

 RW>> Meanwhile, back at the farm, old McDonald Lofaso was being
 RW>> corn-holed by the leader of the herd, Old McBull...

 LL> Old McDonald had a cow, E I E I O.

Old McD had a bull, E I E I O, (Every Inch, Ever Inward, Oh yeah, cried
the Lofaso; forever more...

IOW - you know of course that East Isn't Even, It's Odd...like new jerky.


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