• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    What I remember seeing was people making implications and jokes. People don’t always mean things 100% literally. I doubt there are all that many people totally convinced it was Boeing, but some of you are acting like that is the case. I disagree, that is all

    Ps deductive reasoning doesn’t mean “I know it for a fact”

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      8 months ago

      If my kid goes into the kitchen, and I go in a little while later and see the cookies are gone, i’m going to believe they ate them. Am I 100% convinced of it? No. Maybe i just didn’t realize they had been eaten earlier, or maybe someone snuck in the back and ate them. But I’m relatively convinced they ate the.

      I’m sure there are very few people, at most, that are convince 100% that Boeing did it. But it’s very presumptuous to assume that all of the people in this thread claiming Boeing did it are just joking. Seems more reasonable to take their statements at face value and understand that they do think Boeing did it, or at least someone related to boeing did it.

      But I’m not sure what this has to do with what was suggested by your initial post.

      Ps deductive reasoning doesn’t mean “I know it for a fact”

      By definition deductive reason is using logic to come to a specific conclusion, so it absolutely does mean it’s a fact.

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        8 months ago

        Deductive reasoning means using evidence so no you’re flat wrong. Also, ever heard of a “knee jerk reaction”? Hint, that also isn’t a term that means you’re sure of anything

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          8 months ago

          You’re confusing deductive reasoning with inductive reasoning. But I wouldn’t even call it inductive reasoning, as it’s really just an empty hypothesis where people are putting what they want to be the truth into the holes of our knowledge…or hell even outright rejecting evidence, like qanons do.

          And, again, Ive already agreed that they don’t 100% believe it. But arguing that they don’t think Boeing had this person killed is just ignoring what they said and assuming what you want.

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            8 months ago

            This conversation started with some people cheekily blaming Boeing (a fair first reaction). Then some dude chided everyone for being like qanon, I said that was a deep over exaggeration, now here I am getting a lesson in pedantry. What even are conversations like this?

            I read the thread one way and a couple others didn’t. End of story.

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              8 months ago

              "oh, sorry. I was mistaken about what deductive reasoning means, and I can see why what I said did not convey what I actually think. Thanks for the correction.’

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                8 months ago

                “Sorry for caring more about pedantry than the topic at hand. I’ll speak to my therapist about that”

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                  8 months ago

                  Lol I assure you me and my therapist have way more pressing issues to talk about than you refusing to admit you are wrong.

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                    8 months ago

                    The fact that you think a phrase can’t imply a “potential conclusion” and instead must be a “certain conclusion” would agree with you there.