[MD] Intellection (formerly Democracy)

craigerb at comcast.net craigerb at comcast.net
Tue Nov 11 14:12:34 PST 2008


[Craig, previously]
> Take the Law of the
> Excluded Middle: p or not-p (e.g., 'it is raining' or
> 'it is not raining'.)
> It not like we experience rain, then no rain, then rain,
> then no rain, but never anything else, so conclude that
> it must be raining or not raining.
> Rather logic is imposed on our experience of rain &
> no rain in order to make sense of it.

[Ham]
> Right, it could be snowing or hailing or fogging up.

Snowing or hailing or fogging up are just ways of not
raining (or they could be special cases of
raining/precipitation--LOGIC doesn't determine which).

[Ham]
> WE impose our intellect on 
> experience in order to make logical sense of it (as in a working principle). 

Yes, rather than inferring our logic from experience.
Craig



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