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Re: [ontolog-forum] new logic

To: paoladimaio10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Christopher Menzel <cmenzel@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:20:32 -0600
Message-id: <4B046520.5030904@xxxxxxxx>
Paola Di Maio wrote:
>     No one on this list has ever said that.  You, and others, have
>     *said* that others have said that.
>
>
> I am pretty sure I read it on this list (not sure when or who or in
> relation to what)    (01)

And again this problem.    (02)

> some kind of categorical statement that 'another type of logic' is not
> possible, that there is only the FOL kind, of which all the others are
> subsets of.    (03)

No one who knows anything about logic would say such a thing.    (04)

> Which is possibly also true, to some extent, under certain scientific
> paradigm.  Its also a known epistemological stance, largely prevalent
> in the 'exact sciences' circles, where 'fuzzy logic' is a dirty word,
> for example.    (05)

Well, it's quite another thing entirely for someone to *criticize* a
logic for one reason or another or to argue that FOL is the *best* logic
for one purpose or another.    (06)

> But dont have time to search the archive now.    (07)

Sounds like a waste of time anyway.    (08)

>     > I myself and others, without being able to prove just yet, say that
>     > there are different type of logic (cant quite tell what I mean
by that
>
>     Which, I'm afraid, is sometimes part of the problem.
>
> Thats the nature of expertimental work... in the meantime, since I
> started my observations,
> much progress has been made....
>
> watch this space....    (09)

Consider my eyes peeled...    (010)


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