Pattern
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Reason
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Reason and Math
Volume 1A
Printed in Canada
ISBN 0-9697564-5-3
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Private Agreements
Chapter 16, section A
Previous: Chapter 16, Origins
of Rules and Patterns, Intro
Private agreements involve one- and two-way commitments. We have to be aware
of the difference between the two. They provide one of the sources of rules to
be formed and argued or talked about. Agreements may say that this and that will
be done. The agreements may say that an action will be done by one person or
party, if or when another party does something else. The agreements may involve
time limits. Agreements between two parties try to define and control what will
be done in a manner satisfactory to both. Each party to a contract may try to
get the most possible from the other. Whether this is fair or not depends on the
situation. Some people like to negotiate from strength. In any event, each
would-be party to a possible agreement needs the ability to read and understand
rules and obligations in the agreement precisely.
A private agreement or business contract may be broken into a sequence of
mutual obligations (clauses): If you do this, I will do that and then that.
Then you will do this. A weakness of business contracts lies in the failure
to agree in advance to changes forced by circumstances beyond the control of one
or both parties. Disagreement or arguments can be avoided if possible stopping
and withdrawal points and penalties are agreed to in advance.
The abilities to think, write and read carefully are all needed in
negotiating and handling business deals, and the one-way and two-way implication
rules which occur in them. Broken or misunderstood promises keep courts and
mediators busy with arguments about rights and wrongs. Damages or
disappointments may result from a failure to keep or understand a written or
oral agreement.
The ability to understand and read exactly agreements, contracts, and in
particular the obligations and duties which they create or generate, is most
important. Without this ability, disappointments, false expectations and perhaps
penalties appear. So to avoid future disputes and disappointments, care has to
be taken to see that the wording of an agreement is understood by all. Absence
of this care in rushed deals results in false expectations and disappointments.
Broken commitments and broken laws may lead to a court or a place of arbitration
for arguments over losses and damages.
When disagreements are not settled out of court, people on opposite sides of
an argument will put forward opposing sets of reasons. The aim is to show that
the other side is wrong, at least in part. Here each side may argue from
different positions and for different judgments. In the arguments, reasons and
implication rules may be chained together deductively. Several reasons may be
given to support one idea or conclusion. Each side of a debate will have
different accounts of what happened or of what was originally agreed.
Chapter Sections: [ 16 Private Agreements ] [ 16 Public Laws ] [ 16 Physical Laws ] [ 16 Accidental Patterns ] [ 16 Reliable(?) Patterns ] [ 16 Scientific Method ] [ 16 Reaction to Failed Tests ] [ 16 Chaos ] [ 16 Statistical Inference ] [ 16 End Notes ]
Next: 16, Public Laws in Society, Origins of
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Foreword +
Chapters 1 to 24
FOREWORD
Three Remarks
1 Introduction
2 Communication
3. Elements of Reason
4 Implication Rules
5. Deception
6 Chains of Reason
7 Longer Chains
For & From Consistency
8. Language Change
9 Next Chapters
10 Responsibility
11 Accidental Patterns
12 Knowledge Islands
13 Euclidean Logic
14 Deductive
& Empirical
Views of Mathematics
15 Objectivity
16 Origin of Rules
and Patterns
17 Objective Ways
18. Waking up
19. Symbols & Logic
20. Pronouns or Symbols
21. Truth Tables I.
22. Truth Tables II
22. Biconditional
22. Contrapositive
23. IF-THEN table
24. Indirect Reason Again
1A Logic Postscripts
- online only
+Proof by
Absurdity alias proof by contradiction
+How the demand
for consistency supports the law of the excluded middle
+Reality versus or with the aid of Imagination
+Links for reason, logic and crtical thinking
+Three Remarks
+History
Lost or Missing
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