[C] [Wittrs] Games with Logic and Bachelor
- From: Sean Wilson <whoooo26505@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 20:58:20 -0800 (PST)
"If John is a bachelor, then John is not married."
-- one reply: this is a tautology. A simplified version would be, "If john is
not married, then john is not married." No wonder there are no counter examples.
-- another reply: counter-example is Tiger Woods.
The true point is this:
You cannot deploy family resemblance ideas in formal logical statements. What
that really says is "If the bearer-John is a sense of "bachelor," then the
bearer-John is not a sense of 'married.' (It doesn't follow). See Tiger.
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