From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jan 23 2003 - 11:34:12 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
> But I don't think that the meaning of "formal logic" changed while
> Einstein was alive. I think that he simply misspoke.
I don't think he misspoke. I think you are wanting to attribute meaning
to Einstein's words that he clearly never intended. Einstein qualified
his definition of formal logic in the quote you provided by referring to
the "invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry)".
Clearly he was speaking of formal *mathematical* logic, e.g., the
mathematical logic as set forth in Euclid's _Elements_.
-gts
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