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- Subject: Re: Commitment to logic; was ...
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- From: Hakki_Kocabas@kcbbs.gen.nz (Hakki Kocabas)
- Date: 19 Nov 92 23:58:20 GMT
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- > In article <1992Nov17.214321.18500@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.
- > >In article <1992Nov17.175227.20588@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@aisun3.ai.ug
- > >>
- > >>Indeed. Logical reasoning tells me that if I walk out in front of a bus,
- > >>I'll get run over. Does he mean that in the Far East this doesn't hold?
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- In Egypt it holds like this:
- if you don't look left first before you get on the bus, then you are dead.
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- In such a place if you say:
- if I walk out in front of a bus, I'll get run over.
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- that would be a clever joke, rather than some important result of logical
- reasoning....
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- > >LOGIC tells you this?!?!? Astounding! I'd love to see that logic. I've
- > >always thought this was contingent; true, but contingent. The things
- > >you learn on the net...
- >
- > Of course it's contingent and is arrived at BY LOGICAL REASONING FROM PREMIS
- > I never said it was analytic.
- > :- Michael A. Covington internet mcovingt@uga.cc.uga.edu
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