Hope I got the thread title correct. It was mostly a discussion I didn't participate in because I've been AWOL for two days.
A few comments though: Note how Peirce's typology of 'logic' in practice applies (though I'm discussing them here with insights from Wittgenstein as well). Deductive logic: the logic of proof that tells us nothing new about the world Inductive logic: the logic of probability that never offers us absolute proof. Experimental science is largely dependent on inductive logic and probabilistic reasoning. Abductive logic: the logic of 'intuition'. I think that when people do complexes of tasks over a lot of time extremely well they are firing on all abductive 'cylinders' and most probably couldn't explain even one percent of what they are doing in explicit terms. The science report is that sad sick pretense of an exercise in c/v building that pretends we can. C Jannuzi __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
