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1 total messages Started by Hakki Kocabas Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:58

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Author: Hakki Kocabas
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:58

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> In article <1992Nov17.214321.18500@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.
> >In article <1992Nov17.175227.20588@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@aisun3.ai.ug
> >>  
> >>Indeed.  Logical reasoning tells me that if I walk out in front of a bus, 
> >>I'll get run over.  Does he mean that in the Far East this doesn't hold?  
  
In Egypt it holds like this:  
if you don't look left first before you get on the bus, then you are dead.   
  
In such a place if you say:  
if I walk out in front of a bus, I'll get run over.  
  
that would be a clever joke, rather than some important result of logical   
reasoning....  
  
> >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...  
>   
> Of course it's contingent and is arrived at BY LOGICAL REASONING FROM PREMIS
> I never said it was analytic.  
> :-  Michael A. Covington     internet mcovingt@uga.cc.uga.edu

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