In a message dated 12/12/2001 6:02:24 PM Central Standard Time, jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:And the use of this method is what Vulcans pride themselves on, Just what the Vulcan's mean by "logic" is a little unclear. It does involve valid (in the broad sense, since probabilistic inferences -- though with the probabilities stated -- are included) inferences only. But it seems also to involve the negative side: that emotional considerations do not intrude at any point: viewing the situation, setting up alternatives, or evaluating alternatives (the last, at least, is hard to dodge emotions on, for whence comes the goods and bads). So I think the antiemotionalism perhaps needs to get into the structure somewhere (another irony, of course, given that we are talking about a Terra-Vulcan marriage which involved emotionalism on one side and, in fact, could not have been "logical" at all, but seemed to be at the time because Sarek was having a carefully self-concealed attack of emotion). Otherwise, the logic might be perfect but the whole flawed by emotional distortion of the view or the evaluation or the range of options. |