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Re: [ontolog-forum] Reality Oriented Logic

To: clynch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "[ontolog-forum] " <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 'Azamat' <abdoul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Kathryn Blackmond Laskey <klaskey@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:18:33 -0400
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Miscalculating the location of the decimal point.    (01)

At 2:32 PM -0700 8/10/07, clynch wrote:
>Hi Kathy,
>
>What specifically was the "error in logic"?
>
>Cecil Lynch
>
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>>...Ontology deals with the matter and content, with the real components of
>>   >discourse about anything, while Logic is an art, an instrument of
>>>intellectual reasoning, at least a formal science
>>
>>Even let us agree (temporarily) to this ...
>>
>>>,and it has nothing to do
>>>with reality, real significance or real meanings,
>>
>>    ... but this is a mistake, a non-sequiteur.
>
>I once knew someone who was disabled for life because a medical
>professional missed a decimal point and gave him an order of
>magnitude higher dose of a drug than he should have had.  The medical
>professional's career was ruined.  The insurance company was out more
>than a million dollars. The patient's life was radically transformed
>for the worse.
>
>All due to an error in logic.
>
>This had *very much* to do with reality It had very real
>significance, and very real meaning.
>
>Kathy
>
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