[lit-ideas] Why The Compressor Shorted To Ground
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:15:02 EST
Geary writes (I'm minimizing his references to God):
>Preventive maintenance, especially cleaning the
>condenser coil, oiling the fan motor, tightening electrical connections may
>well have prevented or at least forestalled this burn-out.
Out of the explanation, a Popperian may produce an explanation of why it did
short to ground:
Preventive maintenace, viz.
(i) Condenser coil gets cleaned.
(ii) Fan motor gets oiled.
(iii) Electrical connections get tightened.
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The 'compressor' does not 'short' (to ground).
Via reductio ad absurdum we negate the premisses:
Non-preventive maintenance, viz.
(i) Condenser coil is not clean, but _dirty_.
(ii) Fan motor thirsty of oil
(iii) Electrical connections loose.
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Ergo, the 'compressor' shorts to ground.
---- The question is whether we need to apply the <> ('necessity') operator:
<> Coil is dirty
<> Fan motor is dry
<> Cable connections lose
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<> Compressor shorts.
I don't think so. As Geary notes, "it ain't necessarily so". So what we can
at most get is
a probabilistic explanation.
Geary wittily adds a human factor -- for it's _people_ who have to _intend_
to clean the coil, oil the motor and tighten the connections.
In this respect, a 'compressor' is a human-teleological thing, unlike a
milk-cow called Bossy who'll supply _milk_ regardless.
Cheers,
JL
author of "Nature and Artifice: The Distinction and How Not To Make It"
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