Notice how you're trying to defend the premise by treating it as a syllogism, saying that the consequent follows from the antecedent? As I've pointed out before, it's an invalid syllogism. D can't be deduced from A, B, and C — Michael
But it doesn't. Nowhere in "¬Pa (= O¬a)", "¬a = b", or "c" does "d" appear. — Michael
The content of d is contained in "¬Pa (= O¬a)", "¬a = b", or "c" wherein the application of the transitive property on those terms is the term unique term d (i.e., the consequent). — Soylent
Considering your comment that one only needs to show that something causes gratuitous suffering and it logically follows that it's preventable, but to show that something causes gratuitous suffering one must show that the suffering is preventable, is there any way to avoid the redundancy? — Soylent
1. If one is a bachelor, then one is an unmarried man.
2. One is unmarried if and only if one never marries. — Soylent
If there's one condition, then "therefore not conditionally" is false. — Soylent
A preliminary thought is that 1 and 2 are functionally indistinguishable and by the principle of identity of indiscernibility I need not commit to the position that 2 precludes 1. In other words, P6 satisfies both 1 and 2 because they are identical. — Soylent
d follows from the transitive property applied to O¬a wherein ¬a = b and some b is c. — Soylent
Considering your comment that one only needs to show that something causes gratuitous suffering and it logically follows that it's preventable, but to show that something causes gratuitous suffering one must show that the suffering is preventable, is there any way to avoid the redundancy?
It is wrong to allow gratuitous suffering cause by food production practices
The only means to prevent gratuitous suffering caused by food production practices is to adopt a vegan diet (I think you deny the statement says this)
There are some for whom it is wrong to allow gratuitous suffering caused by food production practices. — Soylent
Those people for whom it is wrong to allow gratuitous suffering caused by food production practices ought not allow gratuitous suffering caused by food procuction practices.
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