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What is your distinction between ‘statistical’ and ‘discrete’? And what are you responding ‘no’ to? Logic in the everyday sense (that is, propositional or some
by xanderlewis 3y ago
What is your distinction between ‘statistical’ and ‘discrete’? And what are you responding ‘no’ to?
Logic in the everyday sense (that is, propositional or something like first-order logic) is indeed ‘discrete’ in a certain sense since it is governed by very simple rules and is by definition a formal language. But ‘mathematical logic’ is a completely different thing. I don’t think it’s discrete in the sense you are imagining. It’s much more akin to a mixture of formal derivations massively guided and driven by philosophical and creative — you might say ‘statistical’ — hunches and intuition.