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Article #552Re: Why Logic?
From: Klaus Gaarder FNI
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 10:18
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 10:18
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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:
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?
|>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.
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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