humanities.philosophy.objectivism

On Feb 25, 5:39 pm, David Schwartz wrote:
> On Feb 25, 1:50 pm, TC wrote:

> > Your statement is "Cold kills more people than heat."

> Right.

And the world awaits the basis of your statement other
than arbitrary assertion.

[Schwartz says his statement should not be interpreted as being
about the results of change in temperature.]

> > If indeed your statement was about the present,
> > (what season? what location?) then I still have doubts
> > about global averaged mortality. Can you supply actual
> > data?

> It's too dangerous to discuss two things at once with you. You'll
> confuse them and then blame it on me.

So you have no data?
If space and time confuse you, think of context as the
single entity space-time.

.....
> > Your sophism is getting worse.

I should have said more clumsy.

> Then please explain how "cold kills more people than heat" is refuted
> by arguments about what would happen if things were changed. It's
> purely a statement about past deaths.

Then lets have the source for the data about past deaths?

But as an aside consider a population at a single temperature.
Cool it - some die. Heat it - some die.
(or reverse order of perturbations if you like).
If changes toward cold kills fewer than changes toward higher
temperatures, then by rather simple logic integrating over
past time it follows that heat kills more than cold.

Tom