Re: Intuitions, Illusions and Common Sense

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eray Ozkural  exa) writes:
>Neil W Rickert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eray Ozkural  exa) writes:

>> >I think paradoxes are illusions much in the same way a visual illusion
>> >occurs. The logical reasoning faculty expects a certain kind of input
>> >and it tries to make a computation, in particular an inference which
>> >will satisfy the question of whether a useful logical conclusion
>> >exists given these premises.

>> What is this "logical reasoning faculty"?

>> I don't see any evidence that there is such a faculty.

>Well, maybe you keep your observations to your own thoughts ;)

It has always seemed to me that ordinary reasoning is not logic based.

>Seriously, I think we can compute inferences in propositional logic at
>least. It perhaps doesn't come in logical sentences and wffs like
>logicians would prefer, but it seems to me logic nonetheless!

Well sure.  However, most people find propositional logic quite
difficult, or at least they find it unnatural.