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

From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:12:47 -0230
My pleasure, Julie. A good laugh is hard to come by these days. But the
philosophical question I posed remains unanswered.

Walter C. Okshevsky
Memorial University


Quoting JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx:

> THAT one made me laugh.  I needed it.  Thanks.
>  
> Julie Krueger
>  
> ========Original Message========
>     Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Malt, Coffee & Chuck Taylor  Date: 6/18/06 12:54:56
> 
> P.M. Central Daylight Time  From: _wokshevs@xxxxxxx (mailto:wokshevs@xxxxxx) 
> 
>  To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)   Sent on:   
> 
> 
> 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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