zodiac2 Jan 2006

1) "Fuzzy logic" is a term used by, oh, fishmongers and politicians. No person who'd ever studied logic, proof, or nearly anything else would ever say "fuzzy logic", except in the most tasteless of jokes.

2) Yes, of course most people use some mix of logic and (blind) faith to get through their lives. I've not suggested otherwise. I personally don't think it's as healthy to use faith as it is to use logic, but then most people are awful at logic, so they're just as well off using faith as sullying the good name of logic. Which they do anyway. If it's any consolation to the faithful, they'll get to go to heaven and I won't.

I think if you got down to it, you'd find that logic and faith aren't as often as odds as you'd expect. Actually, I believe the logical conclusion matches the faithful conclusion in almost every instance where logic applies. In a case where your dog dies and you feel his presence somewhere in the bow'lsphere or whatever, logic doesn't and can't apply. Anyone who has told you so is a bad logician, and disqualified. Ergo, I consider myself a pretty logical person; at least, I base most of my decisions on the best of my logicking abilities; and I think you'll find we agree on most matters not 100% related to faith.

Here's what gets me -

YOU: Nothing can totally be proven to make it complete logic nor disproved to make it a matter of complete faith.

ME: Not true. For example: Under conditions such as those existing in a laboratory on Earth at the present moment, objects falling in a vacuum will accelerate toward the Earth's center at a calculable rate irrespective of their mass = true, logical, and proveable.

2. I feel bored = true, logical, unproveable.

3. God exists = possibly true, unlogical, proveable.

4. There possibly exists a Being who can do everything = true, logical, unproveable.

What allows you to make such grandoise assertions as "nothing can totally be proven to make it complete logic nor disproved to make it a matter of complete faith"?

YOU: Faith.

ME: Okay. Well, then... Um...