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> Unless the journal only accept papers on logic itself A journal that was focused on "logic itself" would belong in pure mathematics. > what an editor consid
by jkhdigital 5y ago
> Unless the journal only accept papers on logic itself
A journal that was focused on "logic itself" would belong in pure mathematics.
> what an editor considers plausible varies by what intellectual, political, scientific or whatever tradition they begin with.
Not necessarily; one need not make independent claims about plausibility of an assumption in order to construct powerful logical arguments around it. This is pretty much the only game in town in philosophy, but scientific arguments must also adhere to the rules of deductive logic. And scientists are not necessarily expert logicians--they do commit logical fallacies. John Ioannidis has basically built his entire reputation on finding logical fallacies in otherwise "hard" research.
- joe_the_user 5y agoNot necessarily; one need not make independent claims about plausibility of an assumption in order to construct powerful logical arguments around it. What's a "powerful" logical argument? I remember when GPT-2 first came out, OpenAI published an article it generated about the history of unicorns in Peru. Facile text was quite readable and apparently well written. That it's common knowledge that unicorns do not exist left the entire construct lacking believability. Perhaps this "journal of controversial ideas" could publish an endless stream of automatically generated texts involving logical deductions based on arbitrary, implausible assumptions. scientific arguments must also adhere to the rules of deductive logic This statements sounds like it was written by someone with no experience reading actual scientific papers. Most papers from most fields use plausible arguments drawn from statistics and tradition.
- jkhdigital 5y agoI’m a PhD student in my fourth year. I’ve read hundreds of scientific papers. Just because an argument draws from “statistics and tradition” does not mean it is built on something other than deductive logic.
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