{"id":559,"date":"2007-07-19T15:22:03","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T20:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/07\/19\/ponens-tollens\/"},"modified":"2007-07-19T15:22:03","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T20:22:03","slug":"ponens-tollens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/07\/19\/ponens-tollens","title":{"rendered":"Ponens-Tollens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.willwilkinson.net\/flybottle\/2007\/07\/18\/the-courage-to-conjoin\/\">My nomination for the best use of the phrase<\/a> &#8220;a retarded <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modus_ponens\">ponens<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modus_tollens\">tollens<\/a> showdown&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here is what you do not do. You do not start with a mystifying conditional like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If the universe is only physical (or whatever), then there is no free will,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because how do you know that? You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. But you may think you do and so you get caught in a retarded ponens\/tollens showdown: the universe is physical, ergo no free will, or\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 free will, so the universe is not physical. But, again, through what method of divination do we validate this conditional? None. Because we already know it is false.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My nomination for the best use of the phrase &#8220;a retarded ponens\/tollens showdown&#8221;: Here is what you do not do. You do not start with a mystifying conditional like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If the universe is only physical (or whatever), then there is no free will,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because how do you know that? You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. But you may think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}