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Old 01-07-2010, 12:36 AM
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daphne
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Originally Posted by basIam View Post
This is a total fallacy!

Proposition: Alcoholism is alcohol dependence
Postulate: Any human being who consume enough alcohol over a long enough period of time will become alcohol dependent.
Contention: Given the postulate, the proposition leads to the conclusion that every human being is by nature alcoholic.

This contention is absurd.

QED via Reductio ad Absurdum
Hey basIam
what about the contention that
very human by nature has the POTENTIAL to become addicted I agree with that and if you look at all cultures across time mostly they develop some form of mind altering substance.
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