Anderson and Belnap Entailment
https://books.google.com/books/about/Entailment.html?id=8LRGswEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Jul 20, 2020, 6:03 PM Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > The counterfactual definition of cause that you offer has been widely > discussed and has been found to be inadequate. > > Jon, give me an "other thing" that may be a cause and I'll bet that I can > explain how it's an event. Or how you can construe it as one. > > There is a book called "Entailment" by Anderson and Belnap that I think > Glen should read. I haven't read it but I think causes and logical > implications are examples. > > Frank > > > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2020, 5:26 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think the relation between cause and entailment goes something like >> this: >> >> If cause means, event A is always followed by event B and B never occurs >> in >> the absence of A (for instance) >> >> Then the statement that A causes B, taken with the statement "A has >> occurred", entails the occurrence of B. >> >> But boy, howdy, am I NOT a logician! >> >> N >> >> >> >> Nicholas Thompson >> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology >> Clark University >> [email protected] >> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jon Zingale >> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 5:20 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] better simulating actual FriAM >> >> Thanks, that sounds right. Are we interested in similar relations like >> entailment? >> >> >> >> -- >> Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> >> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe >> http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> >> >> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> >
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