At Sat, 23 Jan 1999 23:02:23 EST, you wrote:
>
>In a message dated 1/23/99 7:58:16 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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><< Logic is the enemy of clear thinking? >>
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>If you would take some time to examine this institution called "Logic" which
>you are mindlessly parrotting, you might discover that it does not have a
>monopoly on clear thinking, but in fact acts as a cop for certain
>methodologies. When an institution interferes with deeper thinking about a
>subject through prohibiting certain types of thought merely because they
>violate formal rules, then, yes, it becomes the enemy of clear thinking.
>People engaged in clear thinking long before the Greeks Codified and
>Formalized their discipline of "logic" .. and yes, I am asserting that, lo
>and behold, the Greeks and their logician descendants have not elucidated the
>sum total of what clear thinking may be.
Which of these logical rules do you consider an impediment to clear thinking?
If A, then A
If not A, then not A
Either A or not A
Not both A and Not A
Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
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