On Jul 17, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Kathryn Blackmond Laskey wrote: (01)
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>
>> But given Kathy's idea of logical consistency, doesn't it become
>> important that someone who knows about Botony is likely to be
>> thinking
>> more consistently than some non-Botanist thinking about plants?
>> Could
>> be anyone. Are they all Tarskian at heart?
>
> I didn't say botanists were Tarskian at heart. At heart they are
> botanists!!! But if they are logically consistent botanists, I could
> develop an axiom system and Tarskian model that was a pretty good
> approximation to the phenomenonogy of their assertions. That does NOT
> mean it is a good model of their actual throught processes! (02)
Absolutely! Very important and basic point. To say that someone is
thinking about X is not to say that their thoughts use 'X'. (03)
Pat
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