On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:10:12 -0500, Jef Allbright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Gordon, I've never tried to persuade you that my "arguments are true"
So you post all these ascii characters to me with no hope of convincing me
of anything?
Sorry but I hope you don't really expect me to believe you.
on the contrary, I've said more than a few times that my point is that
it's not even possible to do so in the absolute sense that you claim.
I've made no claims about absolutes.
However everyone must make a decision: to be a skeptic with regard to
deductive reasoning, or not.
I choose not to be a skeptic with regard to deduction. Why? Because as I
wrote to John Ku, though I consider Hume's criticism of induction somewhat
reasonable, criticisms of deduction strike me as assaults on sanity
itself. If deductive reasoning is invalid, for example if modus ponens
does not always hold, then that which we normally consider intelligent
discourse becomes meaningless gibberish.
Beyond that, I will follow John's excellent advice: "it's a mistake to
think you must answer the skeptic on his own terms."
-gts
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