Originally Posted by
dafydd
You insist that they are without providing any proof.
Originally Posted by Atwill
[It's] an axiom of science. It's a fundamental premise whose validity has to be assumed, as it cannot be demonstrated.
What more proof do you want, exactly? Scientific reasoning requires the assumption that deduction is reliable. This assumption is axiomatic. If you disagree with any of this, then I'd appreciate if you explained to me why, because I honestly don't understand you anymore. Are you saying that reliance on deduction is *not* a scientific axiom, or that this axiom is simply not philosophical? Or both?