RE: On Logic and Alternate Universes
November 6, 2016 at 8:52 pm
(This post was last modified: November 6, 2016 at 8:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Again, it's 2 and it's 5, it's not an issue of labeling...but I do think that some goblygoop is going on to make it so that 2+2=5......which is why, to the -actual- point of contention....assuming the hypothetical as I must to answer it without straw, I say, no...whatever those rules are, they aren't logical, they need their own term. To differentiate the rules that yield a sum of 5 from two two's, from the rules that yield a sum of 4 from two twos.
It may be that some of the rules are the same..it may be that they are both sets of rules...that there are similarities...but obviously, there's one big glaring difference in the hypothetical universe where 2+2=5. It;s not even surprising, the OP wanted them to be different, he explicitly made the hypothetical such that they were...but, at the end, inexplicably desires to call what he has intentionally distanced from logical rules as we know them, logical.....by reference to ambiguity in a dictionary link.
As I said. Equivocation. Not an issue of the logical possibility of the hypothetical universe. Not an issue of the universality of logical rules as we know them and as they apply to what we know. Just an equivocation.
It may be that some of the rules are the same..it may be that they are both sets of rules...that there are similarities...but obviously, there's one big glaring difference in the hypothetical universe where 2+2=5. It;s not even surprising, the OP wanted them to be different, he explicitly made the hypothetical such that they were...but, at the end, inexplicably desires to call what he has intentionally distanced from logical rules as we know them, logical.....by reference to ambiguity in a dictionary link.
As I said. Equivocation. Not an issue of the logical possibility of the hypothetical universe. Not an issue of the universality of logical rules as we know them and as they apply to what we know. Just an equivocation.
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