[lit-ideas] Re: Query about Logic
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:01:56 -0600
If you haven't got a nickel to your name.
but you've got a dime and fifty billion dollars,
you still don't have a nickel to your name,
ergo, language is a crock.
Mike Geary
not taking any logical nickels
in Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Geary
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 2:52 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Query about Logic
To exist one must be,
I am,
ergo I exist.
This is much preferable to Decartes' "cogito" which limited his existence to
those times when he was thinking.
"What were you thinking?"
"Obviously I wasn't thinking, so it couldn't have been me what done it."
Mike Geary
pushing Logic to the ends of existence
in Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: Julie Krueger
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 2:34 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Query about Logic
Now you know why I prefer dogs.
Isn't the "sometimes" rather implied, in that nothing is in a perpetual or
static state/ All humans must eat; this is a human, it eats, does not imply
that it is eating every second of the time. Or that if the creature in
question is not eating at the moment it is therefore not human. Or does it?
There's got to be a symbolic logic answer out there -- where's Speranza?
Julie Krueger
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
All cats purr
This is a cat
How do logicians deal with the durational aspects of an attribute? Cats
do not purr all the time, so aren't qualifiers necessary?
e.g.
All cats purr sometimes
This is a cat
This cat purrs sometimes
OR
Male kittens become male cats gradually
Un-neutered male cats spray
This is a male kitten which will not be neutered
Eventually this kitten will become a cat and spray
EY
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