January 11, 2008
Mike Huckabee is an illogical candidate
Greg Mankiw is right about this. I can’t remember much from my university philosophical logic classes but I do know that minus A implies minus B does not prove that A implies B.
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Yes, Mick Huckabee has got it back to front.
Not A implies Not B proves that B implies A.
E.g. if a number isn’t even (~A) it cannot possibly be divided by 4 (~B) proves that if a number can be divided by 4 (B) than it must be even (A).
Posted by: Owen | January 14th, 2008 at 11:44 am | Report this commentWhat a disappointment, I thought the blog would provide some reason why it would be illogical to vote for Huckabee. Instead I just find some philosophical nit-picking.
His reasoning here is totally consistent with every thing else he says, whether with regard to evolution or taxes. So, I guess it would have been more surprising if his logic had been valid..
Posted by: Bob Wilcox | January 14th, 2008 at 3:03 pm | Report this comment