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From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:54

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W.H. Newton-Smith, LOGIC, Routledge, London, 1985, p.27: "Probably the
majority of philosophers would maintain that the conditional is rarely
used in Einglish in a truth-functional way. That is, that in most
cases of even the indicative conditional, the truth of the conditional
requires that some connection obtain between the antecedent and the
consequent. That being so we cannot determine the truth-value of the
conditional just on the basis of knowing the truth-values of the
antecedent and the consequent. Notwithstanding this we will treat the
conditional as truth-functional. Those who think that the conditional
is not truth-functional may be inclined to be DISMISSIVE OF OUR ENTIRE
ENTERPRISE at this point."

The ENTIRE ENTERPRISE is formal logic, the one that is taught
nowadays. In a book called "Deductive Science" I am going to show that
scientific logic and formal logic do not even overlap, although the
latter has often been referred to as an abstract representation of the
former. Tentative ideas (some of them need revision) are given here:

http://www.wbabin.net/philos/valev9.pdf

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com

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