1Z wrote:
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> Brent Meeker wrote:
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>>1Z wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>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.
>
>
> 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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Received on Mon Jul 10 2006 - 15:03:44 PDT