06-10-2008, 01:26 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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Originally Posted by Back Atcha
Logic is indeed a double edged sword. The biggest danger an intelligent person faces is the ability to rationalize any thoughts or actions. Logic based on perceptions is indeed the refuge of fools.
Logic based on realities and facts, brought to irreducable, naked truth, regardless of were it leads, is the pillar of the just.
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Double-edged sword is right. And don't forget its pointy point.
All so-called facts come to us by our perceptions as analyzed by other perceptions and so on. Logic may only say that This MUST be true IF the premises are true—but it cannot tell you whether those premises are true without more untested premises.
Logic can yield no new information that didn't already exist in the premises. The same for mathematics.
All premises depend on previous premises.
There are no true facts. Only working theories.
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"Insofar as mathematics is exact, it does not apply to reality; and insofar as mathematics applies to reality, it is not exact."
Albert Einstein
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Last edited by Qurmudjin; 06-10-2008 at 01:28 AM.
Reason: magister mundi
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