| Re: Shattering the 'CRACKPOT INDEX' & 'Skeptic Society'.
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Originally Posted by ScottAnfield  I saw this fallacy on the site you gave:
A is based on B fallacy - all penguins are birds, all eagles are birds, therefore all eagles are penguins
Would that be true of this statement:
All atoms have an electric charge, all atoms have a magnetic field, therefore all atoms have an electromagnetic field? | _____________________
Dear ScottAnfield:
There are contentions for and against electromagnetic fields accompanying atomic systems (the electric and magnetic fields seem to consistently accompany one another); whereas, until further notice, the electromagnetic field (per se) invariably accompanies sub-atomic constituents of atoms; namely, the exemplary electron.
Incidentally, the Skeptic Society and John Baez-provided URLs/sites are excellent sources of cogent information, even when you may not agree with it.
Best regards,
- RP
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(George Berkeley, 1710) ... lay the beginning in a distinct explication of what is meant by thing, reality, existence: for in vain shall we dispute concerning the real existence of things, or pretend to any knowledge thereof, so long as we have not fixed the meaning of those words.
"All things come out of the one and the one out of all things." - Heraclitus
"Reality is an illusion - albeit a persistent one." - Einstein
"Particles give me a headache." - Ibid
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