| From: | "Ojaste,James [NCR]" <James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: [OT] Nuances of Language |
| Date: | Thu, 7 May 1998 15:39:55 -0400 |
>>Wow, I've seen some trolls in my time, but that was one of the more
>>annoying.
>
>Don't you hate it when you snip to much?
>
>"And if you'll look closely the top of an X looks like the top of a
>Y. So a Y is a different looking X, and vice versa. So from one
>viewpoint, "X would still be X if it didn't have Y, it would just be
>different." works."
>
>Is what I was refering to. And, to clarify my point, while David meant
>this as humor (I think), this is illogical, and he knows it (or should).
>The only possible reason you make an arguement like this is to get people
>to keep arguing. The cake analogy makes more sense. I'd like to see
>anyone get through a math or logic course using the previous statement.
Heh - one of the things that I learned in my logic courses at UW
was that you can build logical systems to prove whatever you want.
It's just a matter of choosing appropriate axioms to derive the
rest of the system from, and then convincing everybody that those
were the right axioms to choose... :-)
James Ojaste
