So, here’s a question: why was the form of the Nixon Diamond stated as it was, and why were no links given to either formal or informal discussions of it?
The original, as near as I can see, does not use the absolute categories (always) but prefers probability statements (usually, by and large) - and indeed, that seems to be the point of the diamond
If people are using absolute categories hereabouts, they’re making silly arguments. Are those arguments as silly as doing a long blue/green thought experiment and never linking to the passage from Gibbon (if it’s available online) or at least telling us where we can read more about the real historical example and then going on to the example, if you must?
Oh my god. I knew nothing about this blog before a friend passed me the link. I didn’t carefully study the logo.
Is this actually an official project of Oxford? Where with a blog from some random folks, I would be forgiving for misstatements from formal logic and obvious omissions in citation, I’d sort of expect more from an official project of not-someone-posting-in-their-underpants.
So, here’s a question: why was the form of the Nixon Diamond stated as it was, and why were no links given to either formal or informal discussions of it?
The original, as near as I can see, does not use the absolute categories (always) but prefers probability statements (usually, by and large) - and indeed, that seems to be the point of the diamond
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-nonmonotonic/
If people are using absolute categories hereabouts, they’re making silly arguments. Are those arguments as silly as doing a long blue/green thought experiment and never linking to the passage from Gibbon (if it’s available online) or at least telling us where we can read more about the real historical example and then going on to the example, if you must?
Oh my god. I knew nothing about this blog before a friend passed me the link. I didn’t carefully study the logo.
Is this actually an official project of Oxford? Where with a blog from some random folks, I would be forgiving for misstatements from formal logic and obvious omissions in citation, I’d sort of expect more from an official project of not-someone-posting-in-their-underpants.