Bob Blakely wrote:
Valid and rational conclusion, or not, that IS what happens in the
normal course of human events. Further, the chicken was absolutely right
- until it's death. If I'm crapped on continually in ANY situation by
people of some different (sub) culture, I WILL avoid the situation and
those associated with it. I really don't give a twit about whether my
conclusions absolutely and in all cases right or wrong. Only that the
conclusion serves me for all practical purposes. It's just like theories
in science. Newtonian relativity may not be complete, but we seldom have
to deal with velocities close to the speed of light or gravitational
potentials differing sufficiently to make our clocks so inaccurate that
we'll miss a meeting. Therefore (save for some specialized fields of
endeavor) we think in terms of and use the everyday mathematics of
Newtonian relativity only. It successfully gets us through our lives
with a minimum of crap. So does avoiding those, who in our experience,
are just too aggravating to be around.
Regards,
Bob...
I find your conclusion odd, to say the least. I would willingly bet all
my Pentax gear that the group that has caused you most problems has been
white middle aged males. Do you avoid them?
mike
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 3:41 PM
Subject: RE: The Photographer's Rights
That's not a valid or a rational conclusion. You are using induction,
which
is fraught with problems, and is not 'truth preserving'. In other words,
even if all the premises are true, the conclusion is not necessarily
true.
The rational person, in the situation you describe, will look for other
conclusions, knowing that the predictions made on the basis of
induction are
not the only ones that are consistent with the available evidence.
Bertrand Russell gave an example to demonstrate the often weak
conclusions
you can reach by induction. A chicken woke up every morning and was
fed by
the farmer. The chicken concluded that he would be fed every day. One
day he
woke up, expecting to be fed, and the farmer cut off his head.
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Cheers,
Bob
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 17 August 2005 13:47
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: The Photographer's Rights
Quoting Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> How is it possible to have a rational dislike of an ethnic minority?
>
Lets say for example that every dealing you have, be it
personal or business, with a particular ethnic group, you get
dissed and/or ripped off.
Eventually, you will conclude quite rationally that there is
smething wrong with that group, or their culture, and will
come to dislike them.
William Robb
