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  Circumcision Doesn't Reduce Sexual Satisfaction And Performance, Says Study Of 4,500 Men

     

   

  ScienceDaily (Jan. 8, 2008)

• Why circumcision is a biomedical imperative for the 21st century.

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• Male Circumcision: Religious Stupidity or Benefit? Part 2

• Debate (American English) or debating (British English) is a formal method of interactive and position representational argument. Debate is a broader form of argument than logical argument, which only examine the consistency from axiom, and factual argument, which only examine what is or isn't the case.

• "appeal to the people"

• an axiom or postulate is a proposition that is not proved or demonstrated but considered to be either self-evident, or subject to necessary decision.

• In logic, an argument is a set of one or more declarative sentences (or "propositions") known as the premises along with another declarative sentence (or "proposition") known as the conclusion
• Arguments may be either valid or invalid. If an argument is valid, and its premises are true, the conclusion must be true: a valid argument cannot have true premises and a false conclusion.
• depends
• solely on whether or not the argument has a valid logical form
• The validity
• Logic seeks to discover the valid forms
• is valid if and only if all arguments of that form are valid

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• The truth table of p iff q (also written as p ↔ q) is as follows:

                       

  Iff

  p	q	p ↔ q
  T	T	T
  T	F	F
  F	T	F
  F	F	T

• An argument is sound if and only if

   
   
  1. The argument is valid.
   
  2. All of its premises are true.
   
   

  For instance,

   

   

  All men are mortal.

   

  Socrates is a man.

   

  Therefore, Socrates is mortal.

• Here is an example of an argument:

   

  A All humans are mortal. Socrates is human. Therefore, Socrates is mortal.

   

  We can rewrite argument A by putting each sentence on its own line:

   

  B

   

   

  All humans are mortal.

   

  Socrates is human.

   

  Therefore, Socrates is mortal.

   

   

  To demonstrate the important notion of the form of an argument, substitute letters for similar items throughout B:

   

  C

   

   

  All S are P.

   

  a is S.

   

  Therefore, a is P.

• Types of fallacies

• Material fallacies

   

  The classification of material fallacies widely adopted by modern logicians and based on that of Aristotle, Organon (Sophistici elenchi), is as follows:

• a 4-bladed fan has an rpm of 65. if you are watching tv what sort of shadow will you expect the tv to cast on the ceiling by way of the moving fan?
  
• if the fan moves at 60 rpm, how many physical derivatives could you calculate and what would be their values?
• if the fan moves at 60 rpm (and conveniently your tv outputs @60hz), how many orbital shadow derivatives could you calculate, and what would be their values?
• if a 4-blade fan moves at 60 rpm in a room with one pulsed light source (a tv conveniently outputing at 60hz), how many orbital shadow derivatives could you calculate, and what would be their values?
• if a 4-blade fan moves at 60 rpm (and conveniently your tv outputs @60hz), how many orbital shadow derivatives could you calculate, and what would be their values?

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