On Aug 11, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Sabri Oncu wrote:
Jim:
It's a mistake to generalize too much from individual experience.
I did not generalize. I just gave a counter example. It is a very
well-known tool used in mathematics to refute generalizations. If you
can find a counter example to a mathematical statement, then you
proved that the statement is incorrect.
But a single instance disproof works only against a *universal*
statement (one put in terms of "all" or "none") It does not work
against a *generalized* statement (one put in terms of "most all" or
"very few").
Shane Mage
"This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 30
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