Posted by King on January 24, 2002 at 08:11:03:
In Reply to: And the actual argument is... posted by Bartholomew on January 24, 2002 at 02:16:07:
: (I'm just posting this again so there is ABSOLUTELY NO CONFUSION among certain doo-doo heads on this board as to what they must refute)
: : your error checking is done when you've checked everything. examine every premise for truth-value, and every argumetn for validity.
: This is not possible. Every time one finds a part of the original argument valid, one is making the argument that that part is valid. As you say, all arguments must be checked for validity. This means that the argument that that part is valid must also be checked for validity.
: This process generates another argument, the argument that the argument that the original part is valid is valid. And so on. Every error check is itself an argument that must be checked.
Could be something like a philosophic scepter.