Graham Priest interviewed by Richard Marshall
Richard Marshall,
3:AM,
Mar 28, 2012
If you wonder sometimes where my admittedly unorthodox views about reserach and learning come from, take a look at this item. It's exposure to this sort of thinking - in this case, a cogent defense of the idea that some contraditions can be true - that leads me to question and sometimes reject what would be taken as a truism by most people. "I don’t think that logic has anything to do with the way that people actually reason.... In the sense that ‘logic’ refers to our theories of the norms of correct reasoning, it is clear that these are, like all theories, constructed at particular places and times, and bear the historical traces of these." That doesn't mean logic is wrong - it means logic and inference are human creations that depend on their utility in our lives for their continued existence.
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