Showing posts with label Logic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Logic. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Faulty premises leading to faulty analysis and policy
As issues such as the Euro crisis have shown, many analysts & commentators treat economies or societies or states as a human person.
I propose that this type of analogical analysis is flawed and thus leads to faulty policy conclusions.
Countries, economies, societies, states etc are not persons. they are systems and the suitable analysis is systems analysis. That's my view.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Logic 101
"Greece is", "Germany is:: It's logically faulty to treat a whole country as if it's a person.
Other logically faulty syllogisms: "Greeks are X", "Germans are Y".
One can say "some Greeks are X" or "some Germans are Y" or even "Many Greeks are" or "most Germans are Y" BUT a syllogism saying "(all) Greeks are X" or "(all) Germans are Y" is by nature faulty reasoning.
One can say that "Greeks (Germans or Brits or ..) tend to".
Thus
Greek are, Germans are, Greece is, Germany is, even for the economy of words, is FAULTY reasoning! but a syllogism that has more chances of non being faulty is eg: "Greeks tend to X (or be Y) more than Germans"
Other logically faulty syllogisms: "Greeks are X", "Germans are Y".
One can say "some Greeks are X" or "some Germans are Y" or even "Many Greeks are" or "most Germans are Y" BUT a syllogism saying "(all) Greeks are X" or "(all) Germans are Y" is by nature faulty reasoning.
One can say that "Greeks (Germans or Brits or ..) tend to".
Thus
Greek are, Germans are, Greece is, Germany is, even for the economy of words, is FAULTY reasoning! but a syllogism that has more chances of non being faulty is eg: "Greeks tend to X (or be Y) more than Germans"
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