[lbo-talk] Marx, Keynes and the Koran

Eubulides prince.plumples at gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 05:23:05 PDT 2007


On 9/20/07, Ted Winslow <egwinslow at rogers.com> wrote:


> "The conclusion is that Logic, conceived as an adequate
> analysis of the advance of thought, is a fake. It is a superb
> instrument, but it requires a background of common sense. …
> "My point is that the final outlook of Philosophic thought
> cannot be based upon the exact statements which form the basis of
> special sciences.
> "The exactness is a fake." (Whitehead "Immortality" in
> Essays in Science and Philosophy, pp. 72-4)

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What question begging.

As if *anybody* knows what the *final outlook* of philosophical thought [no caps on that word please, Al] is.....

Whitehead's *proof* of 1+1 is in the Principia.

So vagueness is in the world as well as our language. Big deal.

Sheesh,

Ian



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