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EXCLUDE_LOGIC

                                             May 05, 2022

Paul Goodman, "Five Years" (1966),
chapter 1959, section "ii method",
p. 203-4:

  "Darwin says, 'This experience taught me
  never to trust, in science, to the principle
  of exclusion.'  Because an unthought of
  reason, of a different kind from the
  exclusive alternatives, might prove to be
  the case.  This is a good weak-definition of
  science: it is logic without the principle
  of exclusion. As Aristotle puts it
  positively, Science only demonstrates from
  real, rather than dialectical, premises."

  "More usefully, we can say: Logic is
  science plus the principle of exclusion.
  This formulation gives the essence of
  'analytical propositions', with more
  materiality than postulate sets, and
  without their arbitrariness. Logic is the
  structure of any bracketed-off 'finished'
  system of inquiry."
                                                           Adding a paragraph
  "It is only from a highly developed                      break of my own.
  science, implicitly using much logical
  machinery, that we can understand what                     An action easy
  logic is.  To conceive of 'logic' as such,                 to perform, but
  is a delusion.  But sciences we have from                  difficult to
  the beginning, they are the human animal                   talk about,
  itself.  Naively, we do not in fact look                   particularly
  for a 'critereon' of truth, but for what                   if you'd like to
  amount of articulation, structure, and                     explain the
  comprehensiveness suits a present need to                  reason and excuse
  know."                                                     the liberty.



      The Holmes principle is inadequate:
      "Once you have excluded the impossible,
      whatever remains, however improbable,
      must be the truth."

      If it's improbable enough, you would go
      back over the process rather than just go
      with it: you may have missed a possibility,
      there could be other alternatives, perhaps
      some that seem more probable once you've
      recognized them.


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