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Reason
Volume 1A
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ISBN 0-9697564-5-3

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10. Who's Responsible
10. More on Responsibility
Book Entrance
Foreword
PS. Three Remark
1. What is reason
2. Inductive Ed Principles
2. Communication
3. Elements of Reason
4. Implication Rules [10]
5. Hype & Deception
5. Hype & Ethics
6. Chains of Reason [4]
7.  Longer Chains of Reason
7. Mathematical Induction
8. Language Change [2]
9. Next Chapters, About.
10. Limits to Freedom [2]
11. Accidental Patterns
12. Two Analogies
12.  Knowledge Islands
13. Euclidean Model
13. Euclidean Reason
14 Math: Deductive/Empirical [6]
15. Objectivity
15. Objectivity, More
16 Rules-Patterns Origins [10]
Knowledge & Story Telling
17. Objective Ways
17. Trial & Error Discovery
18. Conciousness
19. Symbols & Logic
20. Pronouns & Symbols
21. Truth Tables I. [3]
22. Contrapositive
22. Vacuously True
24. Indirect Reason More
24PS. Excluded Middle Law
24PS.  Proof by Absurdity
PS. Reality vs Imagination
PS. Ahistorical Logic
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1A Logic Postscripts
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+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
+History Lost or Missing

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Responsibility
Chapter 10

In this chapter, we give a short story: a conflict between the owners of a cat and a dog about who or what is responsible for an accident. The murky situation leads into a discussion of cause and effect, and then responsibility versus freedom (the limits of freedom) and the absence of liability. Finally, first principles or patterns for the assignment of responsibility and liability are stated or suggested last.

Fred and Felix

Felix the cat lives in a one-tree park. Imagine every time Fred the dog visits the one-tree park, Felix climbs the tree. On one visit, Felix steps on a rotten branch, falls and breaks a leg. In what sense is Fred the cause of this accident? In what sense is Fred the dog responsible? The argument between the owners of these animals follows

Felix's owner claims that Fred is a mean, vicious dog. So Felix had to climb the tree to escape Fred. The accident would not have occurred without Fred's visit to the park. So according to Felix's owner, Fred was the cause of the accident.

Fred's owner counters that Fred is a very friendly, good-natured dog, not interested in harming Felix. Felix was perfectly safe when Fred visited the one-tree park. Moreover, on the day in question, the broken leg was a result of Felix's unnecessary actions, not Fred's. Fred's owner continues: On the day in question, Fred as usual visited the park to walk about. The idea that Fred is vicious is a figment of Felix's imagination. While Felix climbed the tree every time Fred visited the one-tree park, Felix was climbing the tree at his own initiative. Felix had a false fear of Fred. The cat Felix was therefore responsible by himself for climbing the tree.

Felix's owner then suggests that Fred's owner is responsible for the accident since the latter should know about Felix having a natural fear of dogs. Fred's owner replies …. The argument goes on.

Most of the neighbors listening to this argument agree with Felix's owner. They suggest Fred be punished. Fred's owner refuses. A year later, Felix the cat in chasing a bird climbed into the tree again, and fell on the other leg. Felix the fragile feline lived. Poor Fred was not there to be blamed. (One neighbor who missed the result of the argument wondered where or how is Fred? He did not have enough information to answer this question.


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