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Originally Posted by nemo
With regard to your thoughts on traditional logic vs. squirrel logic: Is it possible that, instead of assuming that the actions of an adult squirrel or the fluid motions of a talented basketball player are a different sort of logic, ...
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You are making exactly the same error Buffy made in that you are concerning yourself with the "usage" of knowledge, not the issue I was talking about. My concern is with the issue of how we come to have this knowledge available. The analysis of that process is very important as the logical question of determining the validity of the information is a serious philosophical question. All I am trying to do is point out the vast difference between the two definable procedures.
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Originally Posted by nemo
As the child grows, the use of multiplication proves itself to be more efficient than repetitive addition, and problems that used to involve 13 individual addition computations may now involve 3 - repetitive computations are now viewed as blocks, just like the actions of moving down a basketball court.
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I do not argue with that at all. What I say is that it is a very different procedure from a formal sequence. To prove me wrong, all you have to do is lay out, in detail, exactly what the specific mechanical steps are (all of them) from start to finish. The point being to make absolutely sure that there is not an invalid presumption anywhere in the operation. If you can do that then I tell you what, write out the decision process in detail so I can build a robot which can learn to play basketball from scratch.
Perhaps you might benefit by examining my answer to
Buffy.
Have fun -- Dick
Knowledge is Power
and the most common abuse of that power is to use it to hide stupidity
