Hi folks,
Sorry about that, I'm all better now.
Hi Ron,
I wasn't laughing at you or Arising, I just had to laugh.
You wrote:How many logics do you believe there are?
This strikes me as a very odd question.
Like asking how many colours do I believe there are in a rainbow.
The question seems to me to be so ambiguous that it is either a trap or a lead in to a slightly more complex version of the game 'when does bread become toast?'.
To me, logic just is. It cares nothing for names, games and arithmetic.
I hold a clear distinction between logic and the language used to describe it.
1 + 2 = 3
is identical to
1 + 10 = 11
is identical to
...
(3 dots, not an ellipsis)
I think there is a danger in being too keen to develop languages to describe concepts as it is all too easy to lose sight of what it is that the language is actually describing.
You can then end up following arcane rules and miss the fact that the above three examples are identical.
That is not to say that the rules aren't immensely useful, I wouldn't be without them.
My point is: it is the
purpose that is important.
Match the tools to the purpose, not the other way around; be master, not slave.
So my immediate question to myself was why did you ask what you did? What is your purpose?
For sure, you weren't looking for an answer.
Can you say why you asked the question the way you did and also enumerate the purpose or objective?
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I'll ask my toaster.
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