Re: SV: Only logic is necessary?

From: Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:02:38 -0700

1Z wrote:
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> Brent Meeker wrote:
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>>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
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>>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.
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> If you want to judge what is better in terms of survival,
> you need to use logic.

No, you just need to see who survives. Experiment trumps theory.

Brent Meeker


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