Vicki's got it. The philosopher's really happy because s/he's worked out
things that cannot be disproved. But what crap things! If all that logic can
irrefutably prove is that things are what they are, and that whatever exists
exists, then shouldn't we start laughing at formal logic a bit?
This is people thinking for three thousand years here, and what they've come
up with is that the things that exist, exist, and that they're the things.
Wahey!
I think that the triviality (in a way) of these axioms is an indictment of
logic as a venerated system of thought. I think that cognitive association
(which includes insight) play a massive role in getting us through our
lives, and that applies to professional scientists and mathematicians as
well as industrialists and artists.
Dave Pape
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