Re: virus: Logical beliefs

Chitren Nursinghdass (Chitren.Nursinghdass@ens.insa-rennes.fr)
Sat, 31 May 1997 13:30:49 +0200

>You are welcome to your opinion of course, but you should realize that
>you've just said that the principles of logic are too vague for
>use in careful thinking. If that's right I think we'll just have to
>agree to disagree on that point.

I think the vagueness has to do with the following :

if you accept the possibility of an autocatalytic set of memes,
then you also accept that that "starting points" in reasoning
are like axioms in maths. You just have to believe in some points.

The very idea of an autocatalytic set reminds me of what we usually
term circular arguments.

Yash.