barrington interview

Lee · 14 Oct 2014, 18:28 · from 2014-October.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:28:59 -0400
Subject: (urth) barrington interview
Message-ID: <BLU175-W9B5E133BE79D93B8A1B53CFAD0 at phx.gbl>

>Antonio Marques: scientism-ites, for all their championing of science, have been 

>able to produce a pretty little amount of it. Science doesn't like to be worshipped!


Interesting point. I do get the sense that most productive scientists are too busy with 

their work here to worry or claim their work is applicable on the other side of the universe.


>Gerry Quinn: If logic didn't apply in a given realm, it would be logically correct to 
>deduce that logic did in fact apply there, because a false statement 
>implies the truth of all statements. Therefore logic applies 
>everywhere. Q.E.D.  And maths is just an extension of logic.

>It is not possible to make a logical argument against logic


Thus quoth a naked ape upon planet earth. It's an opinion.


I'll need a concurring opinion from a representative from each galaxy in the universe

before I can take such a claim seriously. Otherwise it's all in our heads.

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