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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Subject: Re: Commitment to logic; was ...
- In-Reply-To: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu's message of 18 Nov 92 16:40:42 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:52:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.164042.2001@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.
- edu (Michael Covington) writes:
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- >Of course it's contingent and is arrived at BY LOGICAL REASONING FROM
- >PREMISES.
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- But surely anything can be arrived at by logical reasoning from premisses,
- for example that I will not be harmed if I run out in front of a truck. Just
- what was the point of your original posting?
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