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Old 11-27-2007, 10:31 PM
VarlosZ VarlosZ is offline
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Default Re: Society, Intuition and Logic

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I really do feel like I'm arguing against some stereotyped, pejorative definition of "logic" that is really common among idiots but is a little surprising on SMP.

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What do you mean by "logic"? Like I asked earlier: "Your formulation seems to define non-logical epistemologies out of existence -- as fodder for the ultimate and inevitable logical process -- and what does that get us?"

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My point is simply that there are some kinds of information that logic does a relatively poor job of illuminating. That's all.

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Give me an example.

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I already gave you two. One you explained away with (apparently) an unusually broad definition of "logic" -- a point more about the words involved than the concept itself -- the other you ignored completely.
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