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- From: higa@lclark.edu (Keith Higa)
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- Subject: Re: Are all crows black? => Logic as an essential subject?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.193612.16707@lclark.edu>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 19:36:12 GMT
- Article-I.D.: lclark.1992Nov8.193612.16707
- References: <1992Nov4.170813.27890@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov5.182513.25397@lclark.edu> <1992Nov8.072149.18855@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <1992Nov8.072149.18855@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> casley@Tarski.Stanford.EDU (Ross Casley) writes:
- >It does take a lot of work to get to a position where a statement that is
- >clearly mathematical is clearly analytic too. But that doesn't seem to
- >have any bearing on whether it is worthwhile to learn elementary logic
- >in high school.
-
- My feeling is, if it were to be put in the curriculum, the best place to put
- it is high school geometry. Every geometry text has a section on logic some-
- where, but it's usually relegated to the appendices.
-
- Whether it is worthwhile...I think at least knowing propositional logic
- should be of some use, at least by way of an introduction, IMHO.
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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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