Richard Baker wrote: > >> Sampling from friends to prove something is very unscientific. Just >> to add unscience to the discussion, just because I know lots of >> vegetarians (and a few almost-pure carnivores) doesn't mean >> that I must reject the hypothesis that humans are omnivores. > > No, but you would have to reject the hypothesis that all people eat > meat. > But not the hypothesis that people eat meat. We are not talking about mathematical sets in boolean logic, but with fuzzy sets in fuzzy logic.
BTW, a friend of mine, who, after some time doing Engineering, became a shrink, was studying Paraconsistent Logic, because he wanted to model the mind of psychoes. So he asked help from his mathematically enhanced and partly psycho friend. Me. Paraconsistent Logic is an interesting subject. It's logic applied to non-logical ways of thought. It's like Lewis Carroll's Achilles and The Tortoise. "I accept A, I accept B, I accept that A and B imply Z, but I don't accept Z". Now, back to the topic. Paraconsistent Logic is used to analyse the minds of psychotics, but also in: Politics, Marketing and Religion... Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
