Mr. Densmore,
Not sure why I have been elevated to “Mr. Thompson”. Makes me nervous. The only people who call me Mr. anymore are nurses who are preparing me for colonscopies.
Your question seems a fair one, and I would like to answer it, but I don’t know what MMA means.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Gillian Densmore
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 12:56 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Why I was wrong about the nuclear option
Mr. Thompson,
New-Clear options? In what context?
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Logic trap?
The logic trap that's popular in colleges goes about like: Gill is a human able obliterate concrete and kick ass in MMA, therefore all humans can kick ass in MMA and make short work of concrete.
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On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:
This reminded of our discussion about a year ago concerning the so-called “fallacy of induction”. Do any of you know about grue and green. Grue is a property of grass that it is green, just until you stop looking at it, at which point it turns blue. The point is that every scrupulous observation of grass confirming that it is still green, is equally a confirmation that it is also grue. “Absurd!”, you say, but only if you take for granted that the world is not the sort of place that changes on a dime. And where else could you have learned that save by induction.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/12/04/why-i-was-wrong-about-the-nuclear-option/
Nick
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