30 Sep '09 23:39>1 edit
Originally posted by josephwI did! The chessboard (nothing is hidden - chess actually illustrates another kind of problem where the information is too great to exhaustively analyze (for humans and computers) - tho if you generalize to checkers then there is an absolute - checkers has been solved.) But those are games - not real life. I doubt you and I could agree on enough facts to even begin to start evaluating logical propositions about life. To me, that's OK. I don't have to prove myself right. I am happy to entertain the possibility that I might be wrong. I take responsibility for what I believe and I try not to be too disrespectful of what others believe. Any of us "could" be right about the things we don't have full information about, however, since our information is not complete we might also "all " be wrong. My advice is to try to live with that. Chaucer said "master thyself and others shall thee beare." I'd rather have friends that angry disagreements.
[b]"Logic always works in a situation where you possess perfect knowledge."
Care to describe a situation where one possesses perfect knowledge?[/b]