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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence?

Sourcehttps://ian-wardell.blogspot.com/2026/02/what-can-be-asserted-without-evidence.html
AuthorIan Wardell
Published2026-02-27, 04:05 PM
SummaryMuch of what we are taught in our formative years we just absorb and accept uncritically. Take, for example, how we are taught to divide one fraction into another. Consider solving 1/3 ÷ 1/9. To solve this at school, we were instructed to flip the second fraction (swap the numerator and the denominator) and multiply the two resulting fractions together. So 1/3 ÷ 1/9 becomes 1/3 x 9/1 or 1/3 x 9, which equals 9/3, or 3. However, being familiar with this procedure for solving the division of fract
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