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THE ATLAS OF THE REALITY TUNNEL
Maybe logic
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Wilson's popular rendering of multi-valued logic: replace true/false with a spectrum of confidence, and prefix assertions with "maybe" until the evidence earns something stronger. He credited Korzybski's non-Aristotelian system and von Neumann's three-valued logic.
His signature move, and one worth stating precisely: it does not mean everything is equally uncertain. It means the two-valued box is the wrong container for most claims.
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whyThe gap where either/or fails and something has to be held without resolution.
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RAW · multivalued logic · probability
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