How to get mad with mathematical logic
Madness is nothing if it is not bad logic, so here is my crazy little flow-chart:
But also in all ‘walks of life’ we have to deal with a variety of factors beyond our experience, so:
(i) As we discussed in an earlier, re Faith and Science, when there are ‘fewer observations than variables’ we must have some reliance on faith: in many societies, and as I argued, ideally in socialist societies, this is a function of custom, or what I have called customary care. But this scenario can be mucked up, not least when the authorities, or those with superiority want it so to be. This I have previously discussed in connection with exploitation.
(ii) The poor psychologists and psychiatrists: their task is not logic or mathematics but to look into the souls of individual patients, though occasionally mad professors, of philosophy like Karl Popper, will tell them how to be ‘scientific’.
(iii) We might say that if people make false deductions and this harms society, if they harm themselves it is madness, but if they benefit themselves it is greed.
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I was going to present a logically valid deduction as to why the Tories are institutionally mad. I started to do this in the last issue when I argued that they think it’s not them but others are mad, specially those they want to exploit... oops welcome into the great family that is Eng... Britain, but I shall rest my case with a cartoo... nother diagram.
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By Martin Prior
[Btw] - Who's the chicken?
