[FRIAM] better simulating actual FriAM

[Frank Wimberly]

Anderson and Belnap Entailment


https://books.google.com/books/about/Entailment.html?id=8LRGswEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2020, 6:03 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The counterfactual definition of cause that you offer has been widely
> discussed and has been found to be inadequate.
>
> Jon, give me an "other thing" that may be a cause and I'll bet that I can
> explain how it's an event.  Or how you can construe it as one.
>
> There is a book called "Entailment" by Anderson and Belnap that I think
> Glen should read.  I haven't read it but I think causes and logical
> implications are examples.
>
> Frank
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> Frank C. Wimberly
> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>
> 505 670-9918
> Santa Fe, NM
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020, 5:26 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think the relation between cause and entailment goes something like
>> this:
>>
>> If cause means, event A is always followed by event B and B never occurs
>> in
>> the absence of A (for instance)
>>
>> Then the statement that A causes B, taken with the statement "A has
>> occurred", entails the occurrence of B.
>>
>> But boy, howdy, am I NOT a logician!
>>
>> N
>>
>>
>>
>> Nicholas Thompson
>> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
>> Clark University
>> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Jon Zingale
>> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 5:20 PM
>> To: friam at redfish.com
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] better simulating actual FriAM
>>
>> Thanks, that sounds right. Are we interested in similar relations like
>> entailment?
>>
>>
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