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- From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
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- Subject: Re: Commitment to logic; was ...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.164042.2001@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 16:40:42 GMT
- Article-I.D.: athena.1992Nov18.164042.2001
- References: <BxvDqn.8n1@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Nov17.175227.20588@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1992Nov17.214321.18500@psych.toronto.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.214321.18500@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.175227.20588@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) writes:
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- >>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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- >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...
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- Of course it's contingent and is arrived at BY LOGICAL REASONING FROM PREMISES.
- I never said it was analytic.
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