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03/18/07 Sunday 7:17pm EST

THE PROCESS OF LOGIC

The process of logic can be diagrammed as follows read from
left to right.


UNCERTAIN THEORY
MODEL or
GENERALIZATION
Inductive / \ Deductive
Inference / \ Inference
/ \
/ \
Certain Certain
Observation Observation

One starts at the bottom left with certain observations.

These then lead through inductive inference (logic) to an
uncertain theory, model or generalization (all the same thing) at the
top of the diagram.

The theory then leads through deductive inference (logic) to
certain predictions (if the theory is true) which are then either
certainly observed or not.

Observation takes rank over theory because one observation to the
contrary can disprove a theory.

However observations can take rank over other observations,
particularly when they contradict each other.

This does not mean that the outranked observations were uncertain
or even untrue, but that one's theoretical interpretation of how they
came about is incorrect.

Thus it is certainly true that the moon looks bigger on the
horizon, but the interpretations (theory) that this is so because the
moon IS bigger, or that the atmosphere is distorting the shape, or
that the mind is producing an illusion may be false.

Only theories can be false, observations can only be true.

That's a big statement and involves uncollapsing the conscious
observation from the implied theoretical referent.

We see a moon, that's for sure.

That there IS a moon is theory, and that it is bigger when on the
horizon is yet another theory, either or both of which can be false.

A theory can never be true, but can always be false.

An observation can never be false and must always be true.

Homer

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Learning implies Learning with Certainty or Learning without Certainty.
Learning across a Distance implies Learning by Being an Effect.
Learning by Being an Effect implies Learning without Certainty.
Therefore, Learning with Certainty implies Learning,
but not by Being an Effect, and not across a Distance.

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