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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?

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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