<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">With the election and work i have not kept up.. so this might be obvious but <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">the origin of “logic” is the greek logos, which means structure. If we compare economy with ecology we see that <i class="">nomos</i> means man made law whereas <i class="">logos</i> is structure in nature. (even the old testament has in the begin was the <i class="">word</i>, but the original Greek has “in the beginning was <i class="">logos</i>” <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 1, 2020, at 9:15 AM, <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" class="">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" class="">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="">“the ambiguity in the word "logic" that Nick often glosses over”<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Ok, let’s put this to rest, once and for all. I am going to try to steelman a position here that we can agree on<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="">I stipulate that there are many logics. Certainly as many logics as there are maths. So, what is true of all “logics”? A logic is a proposed set of principles of right thinking. Thinking is “right” when it leads to expectations that prove out in the long run. What thinking is “right” depends on what one is thinking about. Some logic’s are more basic, more universal than others. In the very long run, we may hope to discover and agree upon fundamental principles underlying all logics, a logic of logics, if you ill. But for the foreseeable future what argument is logical will depend on what we are talking about. <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>