[lit-ideas] Re: Malt, Coffee & Chuck Taylor

  • From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:24:28 -0230

Is it that the astrophysicist would claim his theory to be both true and false,
*in the same respect*?

Walter C. Okshevsky
Chair,
Department of Quantum Logical Leaps




Quoting JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx:

> I'd like to see a conference of Aristotelian philosophers and  
> astrophysicists.
>  
> Julie Krueger
> never ignoring ontology
> 
> ========Original  Message========     Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Malt, Coffee & 
> Chuck Taylor  Date: 6/17/06 2:22:05 P.M. Central Daylight Time  From: 
> _wokshevs@xxxxxxx (mailto:wokshevs@xxxxxx)   To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) , _atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (mailto:atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)   
> Sent on:    
> What can I say? I'm originally a street kid from  Montreal. Learnt phronesis
> 
> in
> the alleys of Outremont. 
> 
> "Tennis is  difficult." A statement that is both true and false? Or: "True
> to
> some  extent"? (Gimme a break. Truth, along with logical validity, is  like
> pregnancy: no such thing as being "just a little bit pregnant.") Where  are 
> the
> Aristotelian philosophers when you need them?
> 
> Walter C.  Okshevsky
> Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Rationality
> European  Court of Human Epistemology
> Brussels
> 
> Quoting Mike Geary  <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > Now see what you've done, Walter?   You knew how these guys are and yet you
> 
> > went and started it  anyway.
> > 
> > Mike Geary
> > transcending Memphis every moment I  can.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> >  From: "Omar Kusturica" <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To:  <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 5:40  AM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Malt, Coffee & Chuck Taylor
> >  
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > > --- wokshevs@xxxxxx  wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >> P.S. I don't  think that ideas can be valid or
> > >> invalid. Validity is logically  a
> > >> property of inference (and sometimes of bus
> > >>  transfers). Inference is possible
> > >> only from one or more  statements to another
> > >> statement understood as a
> >  >> conclusion.
> > >
> > > * In formal logic, "valid" is  used sometimes to denote
> > > a property of arguments, sometimes of  conclusions. In
> > > the ordinary language, we frequently talk also  about
> > > valid points, valid assumptions, valid objections,
> >  > valid beliefs, and valid ideas. Insisting that the
> > > word can be  used only in one sense seems pedantic.
> > >
> > >
> >  >> Truth is a possible property of statements or
> > >>  propositions. A statement can be
> > >> either true or false but not  both.
> > >
> > > * I'm not sure. Let's take something every-day  like:
> > > "Sky is blue." Or, "Dogs are cute." Or, "Travelling  by
> > > bus is frustrating." Or, "Tennis is difficult." Are
> > >  these statements simply true, or simply false ? Should
> > > we really  expect a rigorous examination of these
> > > statements to expose them as  either true or false, or
> > > should we expect to find something closer  to what most
> > > college sophomores think, that they are true to  some
> > > extent but not absolutely ?
> > >
> > >  O.K.
> > >
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