> -- is that human nature, which wants things to be polar and
> simple, is rebelling against all these fuzzy logics.
I was saying that that's how people are. But I think that's
cultural. ...
As far as I know, there are four different ways people decide one
thing is true, or good, and the other is false, or evil.
1. They make an inside/outside distinction. (That is the one I used
in the previous sentence.)
2. They think in terms of a hierarchy, or Great Chain of being.
3. They determine whether people return the same. `My family will
invite your family to dinner, and you will do the same.'
4. They judge according to a numeraire. `It is better to make
$10,000 than $5,000.'
Plain polar analyses are based on just the first of these four. That
is why traditional logic is so hated; they are incomplete; and why
fuzzy logics were invented.
It is not a question of education, but of how the situation is posed.
If the entity is `other', such as `foreigner' or `infidel', you are
likely to use type 1 logic. If the entity is `money', you are likely
to use type 4 logic. If you are in an army, you will use type 2 logic.
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