Marcus du Sautoy Meets Steven Pinker - Why Rationality Matters
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How to Define a Game in Logic
As a mathematician, when iam trying to prove a theorem, i have to define things very explicitly. But as yo, trying to pin down the definition of things that we use in everyday language is often a real problem. So you've been trying to prove something, you may reduce it to a mathematical, logical proof, but actually you can't pin down in language what game is. I mean, is that one of our problemssand that's another reason why logic in the formal sense is often a kind of useless for everyday reasoning.
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