Lexicon of Arguments

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I 282
Final chains/in pairs/Poundstone: premises must be checked in pairs (all combinations), because contradictions can be in the transition to the next element: E.g. All grass is green - all hay is brown, hay is grass.
>Presuppositions, cf. >Hypotheses, >Verification, >Confirmation, >Verification.
"In pairs" that means "takes into account all combinations".
The number of necessary verifications doubles with every adventitious element.
I 289
Therefore we cannot check our complex beliefs for consistency. - (300 elements: would need 38 million years of computing time).
>Contradictions, >Consistency.

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