Re: SV: Only logic is necessary?

From: Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:39:30 -0700

1Z wrote:
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> Brent Meeker wrote:
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>>You misunderstand "population models". It's not a question of what members of a species think or
>>vote for; it's a matter of whether their logic will lead to their survival in the evolutionary
>>biological sense. So the majority can be wrong.
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> Cooper is making valid comments about *something*, but it isn't logic.
> Logic is what tells us the majority can be wrong

Cooper is not talking about logic in the formal sense; he's talking about reasoning, making
decisions, acting. This can be "wrong" in the sense that there is a better (in terms of survival)
way of reasoning.

I'm not sure that logic in the formal sense can be right or wrong; it's a set of conventions about
language and inference. About the only standard I've seen by which a logic or mathematical system
could be called "wrong" is it if it is inconsistent, i.e. the axioms and rules of inference allow
everything to be a theorem.

Brent Meeker


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