[lit-ideas] Re: Understanding Why Newton Contributed To Human Knowledge With A False Theory
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 08:56:22 +0900
Feel free to assess away. The shift from "all" to "mostly" evades the Cretan
Liar trap in which you neatly caught me. The question about multi-valued
logics is serious. The washing machine is a demonstration that fuzzy logic
not only exists but also has practical applications. That it appealed
because laundry is often described as "white as snow" is undeniable.
Following your suggestion, I am cc-ing this reply to the list. Do carry on.
Cheers,
John
On Dec 4, 2007 4:04 AM, <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Most of your post below I either fail to understand or fail to see the
> relevance
> to the matters we're discussing. Why not offer it up at our pub for
> discursive
> assessment?
>
> Cheers, Walter
>
>
>
>
> Quoting John McCreery < john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > So, change my statement to "mostly flawed or incomplete," allowing
> exclusion
> > of logical or mathematical theorems, whose completeness depends on our
> > assumptions, which we treat as primitives and inference rules we treat
> as
> > givens. Then, a question for those who know more than I do: Why, if PNC
> is
> > almighty, do logicians play with three-valued or even n-valued (where n
> can
> > be infinite) logics?
> > Perhaps I am being muddled by the advertising, but the fuzzy-logic
> processor
> > in our already aged Toshiba washing machine still appears to produce a
> fine
> > load of laundry. Snow may or may not be white. The laundry looks pretty
> > good.
> >
>
> >
>
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