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minus-squareTachyonTele@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 days agoOk. Finding an outlier as an example isn’t impressive.
minus-squareMrShankles@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·13 days agoI mean… if the claim is “all”, it’s not really an outlier. It’s refuting the claim. An outlier is statistical; claiming “all” is either true or false. Not really interchangeable, without changing context
minus-squareqarbone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 days agoBut providing the existence of a counter example is the foundational detraction to all-encompassing claims like “all land is stolen”, in logic.
Ok. Finding an outlier as an example isn’t impressive.
I mean… if the claim is “all”, it’s not really an outlier. It’s refuting the claim. An outlier is statistical; claiming “all” is either true or false. Not really interchangeable, without changing context
But providing the existence of a counter example is the foundational detraction to all-encompassing claims like “all land is stolen”, in logic.