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- From: martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Re: Why Logic?
- Message-ID: <MARTINC.92Nov18221201@hatteras.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 03:12:01 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.091653.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
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- In-reply-to: klaus@hal.nta.no's message of 18 Nov 92 14:47:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.144719.24323@nntp.nta.no> klaus@hal.nta.no (Klaus Gaarder FNI) writes:
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- In article <MARTINC.92Nov17151735@hatteras.cs.unc.edu>, martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov16.091653.1@woods.ulowell.edu> cotera@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
- |>
- |> Can anyone explain why we use logic? Unfortunately, any logical arguments to
- |> support logic, are unfortunately, invalid.
- |>
- |> Because if you don't use logic we'll kill you.
- |>
- |> (Can we start a group for bozos who want to propose dusty old paradoxes
- |> as if they were somehow something we hadn't all seen a thousand times
- |> before? Something like alt.logic.stupid-tricks?)
-
- This kind of response is what you expect from the dogmatic only, and
- being dogmatic is a simple reason NOT to use logic.
-
- There's a difference between being dogmatic and being deep. Assume for
- purposes of argument only that I was being deep: what did I mean then?
-
- Also your response suggest you don't like to think too hard about
- what you're doing, and why you're doing it. It must be the power of
- commercials: "Just Do It!"
-
- Wrong: just tired of re-seeing silly paradoxes that were old hat when
- Jesus was a teenybopper.
-
- Your kind of flame is simply pathetic.
-
- Nope, you just didn't understand it.
-
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