Re: Platonism

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 12/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:04:26 GMT

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:47:26 +0000 (UTC), Neil W Rickert
<rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>lesterDELzick@worldnet.att.net (Lester Zick) writes:
>><dseaman@no.such.host> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
>
>>>If I claim that a "platypus" is an Australian animal and you claim that a
>>>"platypus" is a grapefruit, there is no way to apply logic to settle the
>>>dispute.
>
>>Sure there is if we can find the critical defining property of
>>platypus relative to Australian animal and grapefruit. You seem to
>>regard this as some sort of fundamental fool's errand when I've just
>>given you an example where it's not.
>
>I assume dseaman's point is that this is a matter of conventions of
>word usage, rather than a matter of logic.

Unquestionably. However, he doesn't seem to appreciate the analysis of
those conventions as a matter of science. He doesn't seem to be able
to see those conventions as a matter of logic rather than convention.

Regards - Lester

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