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Subject:Re: Mike Oliver tries to shift the burden of proof
Date:Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:16:39 GMT
From:Mark Richardson <mark.richardson@die.spammers.die>
Newsgroups:alt.atheism,sci.skeptic,talk.atheism,sci.physics,sci.logic
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 01:43:44 GMT, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid>
wrote:

>On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 04:52:35 GMT, Mark Richardson
><mark.richardson@die.spammers.die> posted in alt.atheism:
>
>>On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 04:25:47 GMT, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid>
>>wrote:
>
>>>Which has nothing to do with the fact that the burden of proof is on
>>>the proponent of the existentially positive assertion.
>>>This is a
>>>basic axiom of logic.
>
>>No it isnt.
>
>It is on this world.  What color is the sky on your world?
>
The burden of proof thingy is NOT a basic axiom of logic.
Never has been - on *any* planet.
Logic is not location dependent.

>>This has been done to death on this newsgroup so many times I cant
>>believe you missed it.
>
>Many things have been said.  Assertions are merely assertions.

I agree completely.
For example, you made an assertion above that is without basis.

Mark.


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