Re: OT--Farrakhan states levees *were* blown up.


PocoLoco wrote:
> On 30 Sep 2005 19:47:48 -0700, chuckgould.chuck@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >
> >Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
> >> On 30 Sep 2005 18:12:35 -0700, chuckgould.chuck@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>
> >> >Stereotypes facilitate binary thinking because, with a stereotype,
> >> >entire groups of people can be reduced to a single factor subject to a
> >> >preexisting conclusion. When you reduce your question to two single
> >> >factors, you have a binary proposition.
> >>
> >> Not really.
> >>
> >> Mathematically, in particular when building a truth table, any number
> >> of inputs always resolve to two states - 1 and 0 (yes/no, true/false).
> >> This is true for any number system actually no matter how it is
> >> expressed. But I digress.
> >>
> >> There are varying decision states in truth tables, but they still
> >> resolve to 1 or 0.
> >>
> >> In fact, if you combine varying states of NOT, OR, AND, NOR, NAND and
> >> EOR and resolve their states, you always end up with either 1 or 0.
> >>
> >> This is true for any given number of inputs.
> >>
> >> So, in effect, almost all decisions, if proper rules of logic are
> >> applied, are binary - yes/no, true/false.
> >>
> >> Can't be any other way.
> >
> >
> >Only when probable results are considered. Many decisions require moral
> >judgment and evaluation and in some cases will transcend the bounds of
> >objectivity or logic.
>
> Example?
>
> Judgement and evaluation are part of the decision making process, but they are
> not the decision.
>
>
> --
> John H
>
> "All decisions are the result of binary thinking."


Moral evaluation and judgments influence the group of factors selected
for consideration in a decision.

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