{"id":16646,"date":"2018-07-14T16:52:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T21:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16646"},"modified":"2018-07-14T16:52:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T21:52:51","slug":"theres-more-logic-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/07\/14\/theres-more-logic-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s More Logic Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Basic logic tends to be overlooked even as it underlies the most basic technologies of today’s civilization. But has the last word been uttered on the matter, between modus ponens<\/em> and syllogisms? Not according to Douglas Heaven in NewScientist<\/strong> <\/em>(30 June 2018, paywall):<\/p>\n

One major work-in-progress is an assumption Aristotle called \u201cthe most certain of principles\u201d: that things are either true or not true. Inconveniently, this makes conventional logic blow up on occasion. Take the sentence \u201cthis sentence is false\u201d: is that true or false?<\/p>\n

Neither true nor false<\/h3>\n

Many-valued logics get round this by allowing statements to be true, false, possible \u2013 and more. Paraconsistent logics provide ways to deal with statements that are both true and false, contradictions that would yield nonsense in more traditional logic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As logic evolves, it is becoming closer and closer to what\u2019s really in our heads \u2013 and, paradoxically, harder to understand. Logic has also suffered as the internet and other media have sped up the spread of emotional arguments, says Gabbay. \u201cIllogical arguments are more effective now than logical ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

His own pet project is to bring logic out of our heads and closer to our hearts, by developing a formal system of logic, plus rules for reasoning with it, that can capture emotional aspects of argumentation, including personal attacks, appeals to \u201ccommon sense\u201d, straw-man arguments and so on. \u201cAll of the things that were considered to be logical fallacies up to now urgently need to be modelled,\u201d he says \u2013 the next stage in the evolution of logic as our guide to truth<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wish he’d hurry. Having a formal approach to writing arguments which are not only formally correct but are also convincing to people who don’t care about being formally correct would certainly be nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Basic logic tends to be overlooked even as it underlies the most basic technologies of today’s civilization. But has the last word been uttered on the matter, between modus ponens and syllogisms? Not according to Douglas Heaven in NewScientist (30 June 2018, paywall): One major work-in-progress is an assumption Aristotle \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16648,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646\/revisions\/16648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}