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On 22 Mar 2001, at 15:13, Vincent Campbell wrote:
> > I'm glad you take my main point. But the other one stands too: it
> > is not logical to say that if science is rational, then rationality
> > is scientific. If you *really* valued rationality, you'd know that.
> >
> Call me a fool if you like, but why isn't this a logical statement?
He's trying to say that scientific thought is a subset of rational
thought, in which case all scientific thought would be rational
thought, but only some rational thought would be scientific thought.
The premise that all a is b does not logically entail the obverse
conclusion (that all b is a).
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