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

[Tim Lohrmann]

Ted,
    It's not like that.
    Why ya gotta condescend on da football talk?    
    Religion and War? Religion and War?
    Football IS religion and war!
    Open your eyes, dude.
          TL
    



--- Ted Moffett <ted_moffett@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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