Now, Aristotle said that everything was black and white and nonAristotelian logic is the favorite logic of semantics and modern science. And of course, it insists that they’re fantastic numbers of shades of gray. And that there are no positives and no negatives. Well, that sounds to me like an awful big Goals Problem Mass1. […]
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DMSMH Appendix II: The Scientific Method
Appendix II1 The Scientific Method The Scientific Method is based solidly on definite rules, but is none the less, like the American Way of Life, something that must be lived to be fully understood. The United States has a Constitution, but the American Way of Life is far more than that; so the Scientific Method […]
Lecture: Security Checking: Auditing Errors
Now, the poor old Catholic church that I have raised so much the devil with occasionally, from time to time . . the poor old Catholic church . . for the lack of this datum which we’re talking about right this minute, has developed all of its heretics, its Martin Luthers and the lot. The […]
Lecture: Games/Goals (4)
The limitation in the rules of games, the limitations on self and others, is necessary for there to be an interplay. There’s got to be a limitation. There’s got to be some frame of reference. That limitation can only be as light as an ethical understanding. We’re going to operate within ethics. And the reason […]
Lecture: Formative State of Scientology: Definition of Logic
It is all very well to say, “One equals one,” until you ask, “One what?” It’s very nice to have an abstract datum: one, and this abstract datum is a symbol that will represent another one, and that is a symbol which represents–but let’s say, “One what?” And we say, “One apple.” And if we […]
Book: Notes on the Lectures (2)
The Spectrum of Logic Primitive logic was one-valued. Everything was assumed to be the product of a divine will, and there was no obligation to decide the rightness or wrongness of anything. Most logic added up merely to the propitiation of the gods. Aristotle formulated two-valued logic. A thing was either right or wrong. This […]