From: Dave Zachariah (davez@kth.se)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2008 - 15:26:43 EDT
on 2008-04-07 08:25 Jurriaan Bendien wrote: > The central problem of deductive inference is that a conclusion > follows only if the premises are accepted, but that deductive > inference itself provides no logically compelling method for importing > the premises. At best we can say that, if particular premises are > imported into the inferential system, then in some sense the > inferential system can "prove itself". In other words, the only way an > inferential system can "make rational sense" without leading to > logically unacceptable consequences is, if we import certain premises, > if we make certain assumptions. > I think your post is a good summary. //Dave Z _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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