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From: saswss@hotellng.unx.sas.com (Warren Sarle)
Subject: Re: Bart Kosko
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In article <wb6wCyBJr5.3H5@netcom.com>, wb6w@netcom.com (Glenn Thomas) writes:
|> ...
|> 2) Perhaps my psycologist friend earlier in this thread might expand on this a
|>    bit, but it seems to me that while the usual paradigm of logic has been
|>    all or nothing for a long time, a person who insisted in describing the
|>    world in terms of all black or all white is considered to have some fairly
|>    serious psycological problems.

Yes, but I think it is primarily philosophers who suffer from this
disease. Many scientists and statisticians, for example, are well
aware that the real world is more complicated than TRUE/FALSE.


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