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Thread #160033   Message #3797926
Posted By: DMcG
27-Jun-16 - 01:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: Logic and the laws of science
Subject: RE: BS: Logic and the laws of science
Quite so, Lighter. Moral questions are one area, negotiations are another, and there are more. What I think these things have in common is that the true/false dimension is not really the appropriate one. You can force them onto true/false, in most cases, but it is usually a bit artificial to do that. It is interesting to note that moral philosophy often says a lie is 'the intention to mislead', which is quite a different thing to a falsehood. If I remember correctly, Iago never told Othello a falsehood in Shakespeare's version of the story: it was all about deliberate misleading.