On 12-26-97 David Martorana wrote to Frank Masingill... 
 
        Hello David and thanks for writing, 
  
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 DM>  FM> I think that all we can hope for here is that we understand each 
 DM>  FM> it would be out of place.  My aim is only to show how shallow the 
 DM>  FM> fixing of labels is in a philosophical debate.  Surely we are 
 DM>  FM> reaching for something of more intellectual and practical 
  
 DM>  Complete systems, however bent in accuracy or value, require that all 
 DM>  the players be labeled. Such thinking has to round off any "grays" so 
 DM>  that identifications of the WHOs with, and WHOs against, can be 
 DM> painted 
 DM>  clear.  It is a thinking (often seen on this echo) that is absolutely 
 
   How can you "lump" -all- "such thinking" into "rounding off" any 
grays....?   
  
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 DM>     But do pour out your heart of reasoning as I _MAY_  be wrong  
 DM>     and John might just be on the verge of admitting that pure logic 
 DM>     is not the virgin he thinks it is!      Besides, others reading, 
 
  I introduced the topic of "Fuzzy Logic", grays, earlier about a 
year or perhaps longer ago to indicate pure binary logic leaves a 
lot to be desired particularly in our existence, however, even 
"Fuzzy Logic", grays, has -some- form or rules to follow.  
  To use "logic" even "fuzzy logic" without rules or form misses 
the -need- for form or structure.  
 
Take care, 
John 
 
 
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