John, I'm not sure how logical systems fit Into the comment. All I was trying to playfully point out is that by virtue of considering ALL ideas equally and sifting through them with a critical eye, you are going to have to deal with the assholes pranksters fools And the simple minded. You know, Morons.
> On Jun 9, 2015, at 2:15 PM, John Carl <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ron, > > Without getting into what I meant before, let's just riff off what you > replied, because it lines up with what I've been reading lately about > Absolute Pragmatism... > >> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Ron Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Ron: >> Does that mean the square root of 144 equals potato has the possibility >> Of being a viable answer ? > Written in 1907: > > "The non-Euclidean geometry, strange to say, is not a discovery that we are > any freer than we were before to think as we like regarding the system of > geometrical truth. It is one part only of what Hilbert has called the > "logical analysis" of our concept of space. When we take this analysis as a > whole, it involves a deeper insight than Euclid could possibly possess > into the unchangeable necessities which bind together the system of logical > relationships that the space of our experience merely exemplifies. Nothing > could be more fixed than are these necessities. As for the numbers, which > Dedekind called "freie Schopfungen" - well, his own masterpiece of logical > theory is a discovery and a rigid demonstration of a very remarkable and > thoroughly objective truth about the fundamental relations in terms of > which we all of us do our thinking. > > His proof that all of the endless wealth of the properties of the ordinal > numbers follows from a certain synthesis of two of the simplest of our > logical conceptions, neither one of which, when taken alone, seems to have > anything to do with the conception of order or of number, - - this proof, I > say, is a direct contribution to a systematic theory of the categories, > and, as such, is, to the logical inquirer, a dramatically surprising > discovery of a realm of objective truth, which nobody is free to construct > or to abandon at his pleasure. > > If this be relativism, it is the relativism of an eternal system of > relations. > If this be freedom, it is the divine freedom of a self-determined, but, for > that very reason, absolutely necessary fashion of thought and of activity." > > > So... no, I don't think the square root of 144 is potato. And furthermore, > I understand why I don't think that. > > John > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
