Re: logic is innate?

From: Herman Jurjus (h.jurjus_at_hetnet.nl)
Date: 12/03/04 

Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 16:55:19 +0100

Acid Pooh wrote:

[snip]

> Granting this, your example of the non-monotonicity of this
> conversational conditional doesn't really show what you think it does.
> It shows that the context generated (this may not be the best phrase
> for what I mean, but...) by the sentences "Eat veggies, get ice cream"
> and "Eat veggies and kill sis, get ice cream" are different -- very
> different. In short, you've shown the existence of two classes of
> conversational conditionals.

Can you explain why you think this example involves two different kinds
of conditional? 'Different contexts generated' is almost always what is
going on in this kind of examples of non-monotony. 

-- 
Cheers,
Herman Jurjus