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- From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
- Subject: Re: Majore Mental Stimulations Please
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.092214.14927@wetware.com>
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- Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:22:14 GMT
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- al@spring.unr.edu (Al Benincasa) writes:
- ] In article <1993Jan9.231904.10575@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
- ] >
- ] >As a general rule do you always start out by
- ] >asserting as True an unproveable premise,
- ] >and assume that this will lead to a logical
- ] >following through the rest of the 'argument'????
- ] >
- ] >
- ] As a matter of fact, ONLY an unprovable premise should be asserted
- ] as an axiom. Reason, to avoid being circular, requires the acceptance
- ] as true of non-provable premises. In order to command respect however,
- ] a reasoned argument must choose its premises sparingly, and restrict
- ] them as nearly as possiblr to the self evident.
-
-
- and as a general primciple, the matter should be
- relegated to the axioms and primatives of the system.
-
- This, as you will have noted, was not the case.
-
- ciao
- drieux
-
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