[lbo-talk] Contradiction

[ravi]

On Dec 2, 2007, at 12:09 AM, Eubulides wrote:
> On Dec 1, 2007 5:24 PM, Ted Winslow <egwinslow at rogers.com> wrote:
>
>> Psychoanalysis provides an explanation of the aggressive hostility
>> characteristic of those who misidentify "reason" with axiomatic
>> deductive reasoning.  The misidentification is an obsessional  
>> symptom,
>> i.e. it is a sign of unmastered instinctive sadism.  This also
>> explains the inability of "remorseless" logicians to understand the
>> points I've just made, including the point about internal relations
>> limiting the applicability of axiomatic deductive reasoning.
>>
>

I tend to agree with the above, overall. Interestingly (for me) this  
ties into my other thread of the moment: regarding atomic logical  
development and mental "disorders" (where I in fact explicitly mention  
OCD).


> Please name some people who "misidentify" reason with axiomatic
> deductive reasoning. Did Kant? Melabranche? Montaigne? Hypatia? Susan
> Haack? Leibniz? Godel? Who?

I could not answer that question (though if I dug around Hao Wang I  
think I would find old Kurt blurting something along those lines), but  
I think a lot of dismissive bluster these days is under-written by a  
[naive] faith in deduction == logic == reason with a positivist (LP  
variety) lifesaver for good measure (and the hope that someone else  
will step up when it comes time for enumerating recursively). ;-)

	--ravi