[Vision2020] News Article, Mental Illness, Fixation of Belief Discussion

[Ted Moffett]

Visionaries:

Really, what a waste of the vision2020 list to present ideas relating to the 
tools of logic and clear thinking, which can facilitate sane open minded 
discussion about religion and war, two intertwined social/political/economic 
realities that threaten humanity with their links to irrational thinking and 
superstition.  What a waste of time!

This list is much better served by discussions of football, one of the 
essential critical cultural and political events in our world!

Ted


>From: thansen@moscow.com
>To: "Art Deco" <deco@moscow.com>, <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] News Article, Mental Illness, Fixation of Belief 
>Discussion
>Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 16:52:27 GMT
>
>And this is important to use on the Vision2020 listserve because . . . ?
>
>Tom Hansen
>
> > Re:  Immutable Laws of Logic?
> >
> > It may surprise you but some of the those conventions called the laws of
> > logic have changed.  Parts of Aristotle's class logic was found to be in
> > error by George Boole (the assumption that a defined class has a member
> > implicit in one of Aristotle's argument testing rules).  Other more 
>advanced
> > concepts in the restricted predicate calculus and unrestricted predicate
> > calculus have been advanced and changed in the last 150 years, e.g. 
>Gödel's
> > Proof.  Like science, logic does advance by rooting out false statements
> > and/or discovering new truths.  While it is not immutable, it is the 
>best we
> > have now.
> >

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