Dear Terry,
Thanks for your reply. I don’t really understand what you are getting at, so there is no point responding.
I do want to address two issues.
The first issue is your novel interpretation of logic. There is no way for a non-specialist to argue with these kinds of claims — even a reasonably well educated non-specialist would have to use far too many words to sort through what you seem to be saying.
The second issue involves responsible sources.
To understand the issues involved in abduction, induction, and deduction — and the differences among them — I prefer to rely on the carefully vetted and peer-reviewed articles in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. We expect research students to choose sources judiciously. This is especially serious in areas where we are not ourselves expert.
Out of curiosity, I went to find a copy of Alec Misra’s Principia Logica. It turns out that Misra’s book is self-published on Lulu.com. Misra himself is apparently a graduate student in English language and literature. He has also self-published a long paper on Academia titled Logic and Physics. An Analysis of the Common Logic Underpinning Science and Mathematics. This seems to be a slightly different version of the Lulu book. To me, it reads like jargon, mumbo-jumbo, and intellectual fraud. Misra may believe this stuff himself, but on the surface, this work resembles the work of Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff, the French science fiction television hosts whose work created a controversy in physics. Under any circumstances, Misra is a poet and graduate student in English. He is not a mathematician, logician, philosopher, or physicist.
While Misra might have something useful to say about these topics, his 2005 paper makes massive and sweeping claims. If Misra's work is serious, it should be cited in the literature. Misra has published nothing in the peer reviewed literature of mathematics, logic, or physics — and no one in these fields refers to his work. It seems that Misra is either an intellectual solipsist or a crank. I may, of course, be wrong — but I’d want to hear that from someone who works in one of the fields through which Misra dances: mathematics, logic, physics, or philosophy.
For now, I’ll stick with the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy when it comes to abduction, induction, and deduction.
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji University in Cooperation with Elsevier | URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/
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