What if they gave a war and only one side showed up? - Part 2
by Jack Grant
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19 December 2005 - 14:45 UTC
Technorati Tags: commentary, right-wing, right wing, war on Christmas
posted by Jack Grant on 2005.12.19 @ 14:45 UTC
Beware of the ‘Black Swan’ fallacy. Deductive logic is tautological; there is no way to get a new truth out of it, and it manipulates false statements as readily as true ones. If you fail to remember this, it can trip you - with perfect logic. The designers of the earliest computers called this the ‘Gigo Law,’ i.e., ‘Garbage in, garbage out.’
Inductive logic is much more difficult - but can produce new truths.
—Lazarus Long
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