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- From: nicho@VNET.IBM.COM
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Report on Philosophies of Physicists
- Message-ID: <9209110902.AA29961@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 08:54:10 GMT
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- In <2765@news.cerf.net> Mitsuharu Hadeishi writes:
- > It is becoming increasingly evident in the field of artificial
- >intelligence that the kinds of analogical and metaphorical reasoning
- >used in everyday thought process are not very well describable by
- >Boolean logic.
- Aha ! Now we're making progress. You appear to equate 'Western' modes
- of thought with boolean logic. This is a naive view. Whilst true that
- boolean logic has been developed to a high degree in 'western' societies,
- it is by no means the whole. I totally agree that boolean
- logic is inappropriate to many classes of problems, however to state
- that ipso facto, we must adopt 'eastern' philosophies to deal with these
- problems is, I think, unnecessary.
- > This is, however, getting a bit off-topic.
- Yup.
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