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10-13-2006, 12:44 AM
| | Puritanboard Doctor | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: LA
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| | | Useful Logic Tricks
Major Premise : Some dogs have spots.
Minor Premise : My dog has spots.
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My dog is some dog!
Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.
Minor Premise: One man can dig a post hole in sixty seconds.
Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post hole in one second!
This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and arithmetics, we may gain a double certainty and be twiced blessed.
(this was a joke, btw).
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10-13-2006, 04:55 AM
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| | | Lewis Carroll - Symbolic Logic
Premise: Babies are illogical;
Premise: Illogical persons are despised.
Premise: No one is despised who can manage a crocodile.
Conclusion: Babies cannot manage crocodiles.
In Symbolic Logic, Carroll wrote a set of puzzles consisting of nonsense statements that had to be put in order and then a conclusion drawn. Examples can be found here; I think there is some rewording here.
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10-13-2006, 08:46 AM
|  | Megster | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Portland,OR
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| | Quote: Originally posted by Draught Horse
Major Premise : Some dogs have spots.
Minor Premise : My dog has spots.
-----------------
My dog is some dog!
Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.
Minor Premise: One man can dig a post hole in sixty seconds.
Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post hole in one second!
This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and arithmetics, we may gain a double certainty and be twiced blessed.
(this was a joke, btw).
| I knew the second blessing weren't logical!  | |
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