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A Survey of Types of Reasoning

Defeasible Reasoning

Reasoning is defeasible when the corresponding argument is rationally compelling but not deductively valid. The truth of the premises of a good defeasible argument provide support for the conclusion, even though it is possible for the premises to be true and the conclusion false. In other words, the relationship of support between premises and conclusion is a tentative one, potentially defeated by additional information.

According to Aristotle, deductive logic (especially in the form of the syllogism) plays a central role in the articulation of scientific understanding, deducing observable phenomena from definitions of natures that hold universally and without exception. See [1]

Paradox

The Wheeler Experiment

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Wheeler's delayed choice experiment is actually several thought experiments in quantum physics, proposed by John Archibald Wheeler, with the most prominent among them appearing in 1978 and 1984.[1] These experiments are attempts to decide whether light somehow "senses" the experimental apparatus in the double-slit experiment it will travel through and adjusts its behavior to fit by assuming the appropriate determinate state for it, or whether light remains in an indeterminate state, neither wave nor particle."[2]

The common intention of these several types of experiments is to first do something that some interpretations of theory say would make each photon "decide" whether it was going to behave as a particle or behave as a wave, and then, before the photon had time to reach the detection device, create another change in the system that would make it seem that the photon had "chosen" to behave in the opposite way. Some interpreters of these experiments contend that a photon either is a wave or is a particle, and that it cannot be both at the same time. Wheeler's intent was to investigate the time-related conditions under which a photon makes this transition between alleged states of being. His work has been productive of many revealing experiments. He may not have anticipated the possibility that other researchers would tend toward the conclusion that a photon retains both its "wave nature" and "particle nature" until the time it ends its life, e.g., by being absorbed by an electron which acquires its energy and therefore rises to a higher-energy orbital in its atom. However, he himself seems to be very clear on this point. He says:

The thing that causes people to argue about when and how the photon learns that the experimental apparatus is in a certain configuration and then changes from wave to particle to fit the demands of the experiment's configuration is the assumption that a photon had some physical form before the astronomers observed it. Either it was a wave or a particle; either it went both ways around the galaxy or only one way. Actually, quantum phenomena are neither waves nor particles but are intrinsically undefined until the moment they are measured. In a sense, the British philosopher Bishop Berkeley was right when he asserted two centuries ago "to be is to be perceived.

I'm for Truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice no matter for who it is for against. ~Malcolm X


Basketball and rules of the game


https://www.quora.com/Why-are-90s-NBA-games-so-much-slower-than-todays-Are-today’s-players-more-physically-competitive-or-is-it-mostly-just-a-style-change

apparently it was more physical in the 90s you could do a lot of things and not get called for a foul i also believe the 3 point line was closer and there were a lot of other rules that no longer exist now https://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=1199757

" After Michael Jordan retired, the league wanted to give the game more scoring action because big men were allowed to wait around in the lane, making it hard for perimeter players to score. It's very similar to when baseball needed something new, and they made the baseball more compact (few people know this). The home run record was then shattered 3 years in a row by Mcguire, Sosa, and Bonds." good players tend to make the nba ruler makers make changes


namely to ban Hand checking so that when an offensive player posted up, the defender couldn't push back or even have their hand on them. And also, the 3 second violation on both ends of the court in the lane. This way, big men couldn't wait for perimeter players or back down players for several seconds to score. In the year 2000, even easier defensive rules: http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_history.html No contact with either hands or forearms by defenders except in the frontcourt below the free throw line extended in which case the defender may use his forearm only. • Neither the offensive player nor the defender will be allowed to dislodge or displace a player who has legally obtained a position. • Defender may not use his forearm, shoulder, hip or hand to reroute or hold-up an offensive player going from point A to Point B or one who is attempting to come around a legal screen set by another offensive player. • Slowing or impeding the progress of the screener by grabbing, clutching, holding “chucking” or “wrapping up” is prohibited.


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  • LVT top objections:
  • 1 How about the poor widows.
  • 2 Farmers will be forced to put up tower blocks.
  • 3 Landlords will just raise their rents.

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