Old 07-06-2006, 10:42 AM
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Blake
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Originally Posted by PaperDolls
Holy Cow!

So
if it's *possible* that flying pigs exists, then flying pigs *must* exist.
Since it is clearly *possible* that flying pigs *could* exist,
flying pigs therefore *must* exist.

Am I following this right?

yeah it doesn't make sense to me either...

That argument contains a couple of logical fallacies called argumentum ad ignorantiam (or argument from ignorance) and an appeal to probability. Proving that a statement is possible and unable to be proven false is not enough to be able to affirm its validity. It is not a logically valid statement.
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