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 (DIR) Post #AMktJOaAO4hBAKgBrE by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
       2022-08-21T09:20:07.677978Z
       
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       A very good conceptual overview of the basics of logic (validity, truth functions, quantifiers, descriptions, self-reference and dialethia, possibility, temporality, fuzzy vagueness, probability, inductive reasoning, and then halting and provability issues.)I saw a review complaining about Priest's analysis of the "first cause" argument, namely that arguments that "for every event, there is a cause to that event".  The review didn't like the "mother" analogy, seeing it as "beside the point".  Every human has a mother, right?  But this doesn't mean that our mothers are the same!  Likewise, even if every event has a cause, one may have a family of first causes ;- ).  I quite like this point as somehow I don't think I heard it much when playing with the concept ages ago.The "law of indifference" also gets dealt with well -- when can we actually assign two cases "equal probability as we don't have sufficient information?"Quite short and fun :- )https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4933881696