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Old 25-November-2008, 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Grand_Marquis View Post
Goodness! Six pages of argument over something so simple to refute! Oy!!
Here, let me end this silliness once and for all.


Let's turn it into a simple logic problem. You have 2 urns: A and B which contain some numerical value within. There are two numerical values of (X) 10 and of (Y) 1 million, which you must connect to A and B in order to find out if A is greater than or less than B. You will do this by pulling a single numerical value (N) out of urn A.
IF N is greater than 10, THEN N falls outside the bounds of X, THEREFORE A must equal Y
ELSE IF N is less than 10, THEN N falls within the bounds of both X and Y, THEREFORE A = ?

if you suggest anything other than "inconclusive" you would be making an illogical statement. Regardless of probability or statistical likelihood, as long as A could be either X or Y, A cannot be either X or Y to the exclusion of the other. Without more information, there is no way around this. Sorry.
I believe this is called thread necromancy.

In any case, sorry, but your logic example is not clear so, at least to me, you haven't ended all this silliness once and for all.
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