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- From: rmr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Richard M. Romanowski)
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- Subject: Re: Commitment to logic; was ...
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 01:50:47 GMT
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- christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
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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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- Well, if we could rigorously define all the things that we
- consider logical, Bertrand Russell would have nothing on us.
-
- >>
- >>Some people are vitalists; some are physicalists; a few gentle souls
- >>are semanticalists. Michael is a logicist, -- theirs is an ancient
- >>and venerable breed, and I fail to see any egregious fault with the
- >>views they espouse. Read more Spinoza, Chris.
- >>
- >The issue to which I was alluding was not whether natural language could
- >ultimately be reduced to *some* logic. In fact I hope it can because, under
- >at least one interpretation ofthe problem, the question amounts to whether
- >there can be a theory of language at all.
-
- I think that LOGIC will be reduced to a natural language.
-
- But what do I know?
- Luck
- Rick
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