[lbo-talk] Apocalypse near (Yideoth Aharonoth interviews NoamChomsky)

ravi gadfly at exitleft.org
Sat Aug 5 08:49:38 PDT 2006


At around 5/8/06 10:46 am, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> This is so fucking silly. As a sovereign state Iran has the same
> 'inalienable' right to build all the nuclear weapons it wants to build,
> the same right that Israel, Pakistan, the U.S., France, India, ...
>

Carol,

how silly of you. You are using first-order logic. You really should be using higher-order logic, where things look very different. For instance, like in Russell's theory of types, you cannot lump in such inherently righteous type nations like the U.S.A, Israel and India with rogue type nations like Iran and Pakistan. What you say about the latter just does not apply to the former set, since they (the former) are higher-order entities.

--ravi

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