I, even I, would celebrate, in rhymes inept the great...

Marc Aramini · 17 Oct 2014, 13:40 · from 2014-October.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at gmail.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 06:40:12 -0700
Subject: (urth) I, even I, would celebrate, in rhymes inept the great...
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These are linguistic truths built into the definitions themselves ...
the statement if A then B is either true linguistically
or it isn't, in which case the premise was wrong.  It doesn't mean much
else.
ie "If I have no head I will die." technology advances, and now I can live
without a head - the original premise then becomes false.  Doesn't mean
anything.

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Norwood, Frederick Hudson <
NORWOODR at mail.etsu.edu> wrote:

> Modus ponens is unprovable.  You have to start somewhere.  Is it possible
> that modus ponens is false?  Of course it is possible.  I may be a madman,
> and modus ponens may not say what I think it says.  I may be the only
> creature in the universe, and modus ponens may really mean, "Thou art
> God."  But these objections can be raised in any discussion whatsoever, and
> after a while most people stop raising them.  If I am sane, and if modus
> ponens says what I think it says, then it seems to me bedrock on which to
> build.  Further, if there are cases where A implies B, A is true, and B is
> false, then that ends the discussion, because every statement is both true
> and false, and in that case there is no point in saying anything at all.
>
> Rick Norwood
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Urth [mailto:urth-bounces at lists.urth.net] On Behalf Of Jeffery
> Wilson clueland.com
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 1:56 AM
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> Subject: Re: (urth) I, even I, would celebrate, in rhymes inept the
> great...
>
>  On 10/16/2014 7:07 AM, Norwood, Frederick Hudson wrote:
> > Jeffery Wilson:  I do say A is A.  That's called the reflexive property
> of equality.  And, yes, I've read the Lewis Carroll bit.  Even wrote a poem
> about it.
>
> If you already know that the modus ponens is unprovable, and are familiar
> with reflexive equality which is axiomatic, why are you bothering to hold
> up modus ponens as an example of an absolute truth?
>
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