SV: SV: SV: Only logic is necessary?

2006-07-10 Thread Lennart Nilsson
Till: Everything List Ämne: Re: SV: SV: Only logic is necessary? Lennart Nilsson wrote: Cooper says that a formalist, with only formal constraints on his logic (such as consistensy) is at the mercy of the formalism itself. Meaning what ? That the formalism might not be giving answers

Re: SV: SV: SV: Only logic is necessary?

2006-07-10 Thread 1Z
Lennart Nilsson wrote: You seem to think that evolution (or matter, or the multiverse) must adapt to a preordained logic. No, no , noo ! I am trying to get away from the idea that logic needs to be propped up by some external authority. The validity of logic comes about from the lack of any