Brent Meeker wrote: > > >1Z wrote: > > > > Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > > >>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. > >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.
If this is all that Cooper is talking about, I probably wouldn't have any objection to it--but Lennart Nilsson seemed to be making much stronger claims about the contingency of logic itself based on his interpretation of Cooper. Jesse --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
