5HC

Jeffery Wilson clueland.com · 05 Sep 2014, 15:26 · from 2014-September.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeffery Wilson clueland.com)
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:26:10 -0500
Subject: (urth) 5HC
In-Reply-To: <BLU175-W249A108A73417551B0A6D1CFC20 at phx.gbl>
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Message-ID: <5409D612.9000200 at clueland.com>

On 9/5/2014 6:18 AM, Lee wrote:
> When engaging in a discussion of ideas with others, having the final
>
> word on issues of "logic" and "truth" seems too onerous a burden for
>
> any one person to claim. If a person really did have access to such ultimate
>
> rightness, I would hope they would use this gift in the service of all
>
> humanity rather than just in a Gene Wolfe discussion board. 		 	   		

Negative, Captain. Rigorously correct logical reasoning is easily within 
the grasp of a typical person if they wish to seek it out. While logic 
alone cannot confirm the truth of a premise, it can however reach a 
contradiction that disproves the truth of a flawed premise, and it can 
establish relationships between a premise and a proposed truth.


-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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