I was trying to understand Occam’s Razor, specifically I wanted to know its justification. There are posts over at Wikipedia and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy worth looking at, but neither left me satisfied. Instead, I came up with “Death Implies Economy”. What this means is that we are fundamentally limited in time and resources, and hence we cannot afford to waste what little we have on unnecessary complication. DIE is a metaphysical justification of […]
Month: January 2011
New Quantifier Angle-I, and Agent Logic
I was thinking that upside down A and backwards E were feeling lonely. Yes, ∀ and ∃ love each other very much, but they could really use a new friend. Introducing Angle I: Now, Angle I, , is just like her friends ∀ and ∃. She can be used in a formula such as ∀x∃yz(Pxyz). But how should we understand what is going on with the failure of the quantified tertium non datur? With that […]