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- From: klaus@hal.nta.no (Klaus Gaarder FNI)
- Subject: Re: Why Logic?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.101850.7674@nntp.nta.no>
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- References: <1992Nov16.091653.1@woods.ulowell.edu> <MARTINC.92Nov18221201@hatteras.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 10:18:50 GMT
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- In article <MARTINC.92Nov18221201@hatteras.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 03:12:01 GMT
- 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?)
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- 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?
-
- |>Wrong: just tired of re-seeing silly paradoxes that were old hat when
- |>Jesus was a teenybopper.
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- Your kind of flame is simply pathetic.
-
- |>Nope, you just didn't understand it.
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- Sorry, but I completely fail to see what's so deep about your comment, I also fail
- to see what it has to with " re-seeing silly paradoxes".
-
- I thus consider my response to your flame as valid as ever before.
-
- Klaus@NTR
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