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- From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
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- Subject: Re: Commitment to logic; was ...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.225754.19944@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:57:54 GMT
- Article-I.D.: athena.1992Nov18.225754.19944
- References: <1992Nov17.214321.18500@psych.toronto.edu> <1992Nov18.164042.2001@athena.cs.uga.edu> <TORKEL.92Nov18205249@bast.sics.se>
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- In article <TORKEL.92Nov18205249@bast.sics.se> torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.164042.2001@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.
- >edu (Michael Covington) writes:
- >
- > >Of course it's contingent and is arrived at BY LOGICAL REASONING FROM
- > >PREMISES.
- >
- > 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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- Someone had asserted that "logic" was a peculiarity of Western culture.
-
- I was trying to show the absurdity of this notion by taking a practical
- example: in a situation where "Western" logic tells me that if I step out
- in front of a bus I'll be killed, would he claim that in the Far East the
- same situation is not as dangerous because "Western" logic does not apply?
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