Saturday, October 13, 2007
JSH: Talking and illogic
I created a stir on this newsgroup by noting that in logic you should let "=" mean equal, as I gave a simple way to resolve some supposed logical paradoxes.
Now if you accept that equals means equal there is no debate and how could anyone debate that?
Well, people can SAY just about anything, which is how there have been arguments on this newsgroup for so many years about my research.
And practically logic is used correctly by more people than it is talked about correctly by academics who get paid to talk.
It's rather sad actually as only if the real world forces people to do things correctly do they avoid this talking, lying thing for their own gain.
Like 1=1 is valid in mathematics while 1=0 is not, and no one can debate that maybe mathematicians can get away with the equals not being equal!
But why not?
Well, for one things lots of buildings would fall down or just never get built as people would do the math wrong.
There would be no cars, no planes, no radios, no computers nor any significant technology whatsoever if people did not do just that one thing right.
But in logic as a discipline they have gone for YEARS without doing something as simple as letting equals be equal.
And in number theory where I can prove Fermat's Last Theorem mathematicians who are not doing work that has to build things can just say I did not, and I marry that to this topic to help you understand that they DO lie and they get away with it in the same way that logicians get away with "logical paradoxes".
They get away with it because they are in areas where they can just talk, and not build things that actually have to work.
So they learn to lie and society has gained some kind of benefit from this or it would have fixed the problem long ago.
Now then, to get an A+, explain why society knowingly allows academics to be a wrong class on many subjects.
I'll give you a hint, in the past they were called priests.
Now if you accept that equals means equal there is no debate and how could anyone debate that?
Well, people can SAY just about anything, which is how there have been arguments on this newsgroup for so many years about my research.
And practically logic is used correctly by more people than it is talked about correctly by academics who get paid to talk.
It's rather sad actually as only if the real world forces people to do things correctly do they avoid this talking, lying thing for their own gain.
Like 1=1 is valid in mathematics while 1=0 is not, and no one can debate that maybe mathematicians can get away with the equals not being equal!
But why not?
Well, for one things lots of buildings would fall down or just never get built as people would do the math wrong.
There would be no cars, no planes, no radios, no computers nor any significant technology whatsoever if people did not do just that one thing right.
But in logic as a discipline they have gone for YEARS without doing something as simple as letting equals be equal.
And in number theory where I can prove Fermat's Last Theorem mathematicians who are not doing work that has to build things can just say I did not, and I marry that to this topic to help you understand that they DO lie and they get away with it in the same way that logicians get away with "logical paradoxes".
They get away with it because they are in areas where they can just talk, and not build things that actually have to work.
So they learn to lie and society has gained some kind of benefit from this or it would have fixed the problem long ago.
Now then, to get an A+, explain why society knowingly allows academics to be a wrong class on many subjects.
I'll give you a hint, in the past they were called priests.
# posted by James Harris @ 09:36 
