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| Extrasensory perception, includes telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition |
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| Viewing a distant object without using your eyes |
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| believed that the paranormal was impossible; "anything that violates physical principles is impossible. ESP violates the principles of Conservation of Engery and the Principles of Causality. |
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| Believes that nothing is impossible. |
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| phenomena that don't seem to obey known laws. (supported by Thomas Kuhn) |
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| The law of noncontradiction |
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| Nothing can both have property and lack it at the same time. |
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| Everything is identical to itself. |
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| The law of excluded middle |
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| For any particular property, everything either has it or lacks it. |
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| "reduction to absurdity" Showing that the position has absurd consequences (denying the laws of thought. |
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| violates the laws of logic, can not exsist |
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| violates the laws of science |
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| technologically impossible |
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| currently beyond our capabilities to accomplish. |
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