JSH: Talking and illogic

I created a stir on this newsgroup by noting that in logic you should
let "=" mean equal, as I gave a simple way to resolve some supposed
logical paradoxes.

Now if you accept that equals means equal there is no debate and how
could anyone debate that?

Well, people can SAY just about anything, which is how there have been
arguments on this newsgroup for so many years about my research.

And practically logic is used correctly by more people than it is
talked about correctly by academics who get paid to talk.

It's rather sad actually as only if the real world forces people to do
things correctly do they avoid this talking, lying thing for their own
gain.

Like 1=1 is valid in mathematics while 1=0 is not, and no one can
debate that maybe mathematicians can get away with the equals not
being equal!

But why not?

Well, for one things lots of buildings would fall down or just never
get built as people would do the math wrong.

There would be no cars, no planes, no radios, no computers nor any
significant technology whatsoever if people did not do just that one
thing right.

But in logic as a discipline they have gone for YEARS without doing
something as simple as letting equals be equal.

And in number theory where I can prove Fermat's Last Theorem
mathematicians who are not doing work that has to build things can
just say I did not, and I marry that to this topic to help you
understand that they DO lie and they get away with it in the same way
that logicians get away with "logical paradoxes".

They get away with it because they are in areas where they can just
talk, and not build things that actually have to work.

So they learn to lie and society has gained some kind of benefit from
this or it would have fixed the problem long ago.

Now then, to get an A+, explain why society knowingly allows academics
to be a wrong class on many subjects.

I'll give you a hint, in the past they were called priests.


James Harris

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