2 - By explicitly saying that we should make an assumption I am saying that something may or may not be true and that for some reason we should nevertheless act as if it were true. A false assumption is normally something that we implicitly presumed to be true but is in fact not always true.
Assume the gun is loaded -- yes I know it's probably not loaded because you remember unloading it be fore you put it away, but assume it's loaded anyhow because there is some tiny chance that gremlins reloaded it and you really don't want to shoot yourself.
So it's ok to let the president of the US do whatever he wants because he has the good of the people at heart -- yeah, I think you are assuming only saints become president and I'm not sure how valid and assumption that is, you're also assuming the president always knows best and again that's a questionable assumption.
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Re: compromised
on 2009-05-25 09:47 pm (UTC)2 - By explicitly saying that we should make an assumption I am saying that something may or may not be true and that for some reason we should nevertheless act as if it were true. A false assumption is normally something that we implicitly presumed to be true but is in fact not always true.
Assume the gun is loaded -- yes I know it's probably not loaded because you remember unloading it be fore you put it away, but assume it's loaded anyhow because there is some tiny chance that gremlins reloaded it and you really don't want to shoot yourself.
So it's ok to let the president of the US do whatever he wants because he has the good of the people at heart -- yeah, I think you are assuming only saints become president and I'm not sure how valid and assumption that is, you're also assuming the president always knows best and again that's a questionable assumption.