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   "Kevin Calder"  wrote in message   
   news:TSmUJLCfxENAFwwn@cableinet.co.uk...   
   > In message , James Whitehead   
   >  writes   
   >   
   > >Scientists BELIEVE in axioms of logic and mathematics as well as  other   
   > >things - which then allows them to proceed.   
   > >Some other belivers - believe in say an all powerful God then procede to   
   > >think acordingly, neither will normally conclude that - in the case of   
   > >science - Logic is wrong - doesnt exist - or in the other that God doesnt   
   > >exist. They look for error elsewhere.   
   >   
   > Do they have any choice?   
   >   
   > Could a even a non-scientist logically conclude that logic is wrong   
   > without invoking a contradiction?  I guess what I am asking is, is it   
   > perhaps naive to believe that logic is optional?   
   >   
   Not at all - the law of the excluded middle is quite fundamental to logic?   
   Its long been noticed that its possible to construct sentences such as "This   
   sentence is false" - its not that logic is wrong - its that its nature is   
   like the nature of myth.... it carries no special case.   
      
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