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- From: higa@lclark.edu (Keith Higa)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic,alt.uu.future
- Subject: Re: Are all crows black? => Logic as an essential subject?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.182513.25397@lclark.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 18:25:13 GMT
- References: <1992Oct30.172420.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <Bx5DIB.8qF@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1992Nov4.170813.27890@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <1992Nov4.170813.27890@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt) writes:
- >I have very mixed feelings about this. Freshman math at Gunn High
- >(where my 14 year old goes) started out this year with a couple of
- >weeks of propositional logic before getting into geometry etc. My
- >intuitive feeling was that she got much less useful math out of the
- >logic than out of the geometry. On the other hand logic is fundamental
- >to thought, and even if humans don't reason propositionally it is good
- >to at least be aware of a logical system that they could plausibly
- >reason in, albeit clumsily.
-
- My logic professor brought up the story of Bertrand Russell. I think
- (correct me if I'm wrong), that he and a co-author set out to prove that
- all math was based on logic, and it took them two volumes to logically
- prove that 1+1=2.
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- --
- Keith K. Higa Lewis & Clark College
- higa@lclark.edu Portland, OR, USA
- In a hierarchy each member tends to rise to his/her level of incompetence.
- --The Peter Principle
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