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2 October 2008 - 16:39 UTC…perhaps we should be saying, “Don’t just do something, stand there!!!”
We should remember this:
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
-H. H. Williams
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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Totally agree with you on this one. We got into this situation because of too much ‘fixing’ by different folks over the years - trying to legislate a solution is like trying to legislate good thoughts.
*sigh*
By Barb on 10.14.08 03:14
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