Wikileaks says Wednesday is the End for Hillary.

Razer rayzer at riseup.net
Wed Oct 5 07:39:53 PDT 2016


On 10/05/2016 06:37 AM, xorcist at sigaint.org wrote:

"'conjecture' or 'hypothesis', both of which connote apparently true but
not self-evident statements."

That's what you get for using dictionaries.

English language dictionaries also conflate "Want" with "Need".

Apparently that 'disease... that dumbing down of the English language,
has spread to technical dictionaries as well. No wonder modern
industrial output is half-baked shiny-and-soon-to-the-trashheap junk.

Conjecture or Hypothesis ALWAY MEANT the person making the statement
believes it so. "Conjecture" is quaintly referred to on the intertubz as
"IMHO". Hypothesis would have SOME facts to back it... Usually
single-sided to suit the hypothesizer] awaiting it's 'graduation' to
'theory, where it's tested against other facts.

Rr


>> 	Again, truth is NOT a matter of agreement. And axioms are not
>> 	to be 'agreed' upon. Also, axioms can be proven. If axioms
>> 	couldn't be proven then any statement based on them would
>> 	be...unproven, meaningless, useless, et cetera.
> 
> From the CRC Encyclopedia of Mathematics:
> 
> "AXIOM: A proposition regarded as self-evidently true, without proof. The
> word "axiom" is a slightly archaic synonym for 'postulate'. Compare
> 'conjecture' or 'hypothesis', both of which connote apparently true but
> not self-evident statements."
> 
> From the Wiki:
> An axiom or postulate is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as
> a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments.
> ...
> Within the system they define, axioms (unless redundant) cannot be derived
> by principles of deduction, nor are they demonstrable by mathematical
> proofs, simply because they are starting points; there is nothing else
> from which they logically follow otherwise they would be classified as
> theorems.
> 
> 
> 
> 



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