Kingdom of Illogic.

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 01:26:59 +0100 (BST)


Michael Cule responds to (someone)'s Con Hilite:

> > Learning that the Vadeli are emotionless automatons like the Brithini
> > who do what they do simply because its the rules of their religion
> > and don't think of it as evil or good one way or the other. Rather
> > than the grinning sadist-types
> > we'd previously believed.

> Well, this was put forward as a theory at the Cultural Exchange. I
> myself am quite enamoured of the idea that the Vadeli break off from
> the Brithini quiteearly on and at first at least they were simply
> following 'the logical thing todo. Greg seemed to be saying that they
> were a response to the evil in the universe.

Yeah, it was not at all clear to me exactly what the Offiicial Greggly Take was. I suggested the Subject: of this post, though no one Bit at the exchange. I was thinking of them being some sort of Shadow of the Malkioni, as I think someone else suggested, so logic would the first and most crucial thing for them to contradict if that were so.

If the Vadeli _are_ Logical, then presumably that means that either they follow a completely different logical scheme from the Brithini[*], or that they're not so different from them as the latter like to make out. (Let's face it, the Brithini are a bunch of arseholes too, other Malkioni are just too "polite" (variant spelling of "scared mitreless") to say so.) Though the poor opinion of the Vadeli seems to be a general one, and certainly one that Greg seems to think is completely justified (if not a somewhat conservative estimate).

Slainte,
Alex.


[*] Like, modal logic, or intuitionistic logic? If David Gadbois were here he'd help me out. ;-) Doug Lenat (see the FOLDOC, at a web site near you) needs to let him out now and again...


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