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Thread #155549   Message #3661344
Posted By: Steve Shaw
17-Sep-14 - 07:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: Pseudointellectual Smackdown!
Subject: RE: BS: Pseudointellectual Smackdown!
No, Shaw, you've got the cart before the horse: logic is theorised common sense, common sense is not applied logic. Science models the real world, sometimes appallingly badly, you must always differentiate between the theory of science and the pragmatics of the real world, if science doesn't match it, then iit's science which is wrong, and not the other way around.
Another domain which makes the same mistake is the Law: it has preempted Justice, lex mala sed lex, with the result that almost all Law is bad: when two people face each other in Court, it's not a zero-sum game because the lawyers parasitise them, so even if you win you lose.


Well that's as clear as mud then. Perhaps you'd care to have someone translate your post into English. Make sure, though, that their punctuation skills are up to snuff.. :-)