humanities.philosophy.objectivism

Fred Weiss wrote:
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> Exactly - so your are safe on your limb.
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> Or, as I have often asked in regard to this question, such as when we
> get Bob's algorithm about universal laws being impossible because they
> require an infinite number of instances, "Do we have to examine every
> cow on the planet before concluding that none of them can jump over
> the moon".

Yes. In principle. That is why scientific theories are never -proven-
regardless of how many verifications are made. One never knows if the
next new and unknown fact discovered will falsify the theory or not.

On the other hand if one -defines- a cow to be a mammal that cannot jump
over the moon, then the matter ia a tautology and tells you nothing new.

Bob Kolker