[lit-ideas] Re: Try a Logic Problem
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- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:39:32 EDT
Where DID JL go, anyway?
Julie Krueger
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Problem Date: 6/27/06 8:56:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time From:
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1.
Running means to run.
Horses run.
Therefore swiftly running horses run.
2.
The Don is a river.
Swiftly flows the Don.
Swiftly run the horses.
Therefore Don is a horse.
Therefore a horse is a river.
Hippo means horse,
Patamos means river.
Therefore horses are hippopatomases.
So are rivers.
JL would support this logic if he were still subscribing.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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From: "Robert Paul" <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 7:23 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Try a Logic Problem
> (A) Horses run swiftly, so horses run.
>
> That is, it clearly seems to follow from their running swiftly that they
> run.
>
> Yet it's extremely difficult to formalize this straightforward inference
> (without adding a prima facie otiose premise).
>
> The best attempts to put (A) in recognizable logical form will win three
> weeks at the Mutton College Logic Camp, in Sheepskin, Nebraska. Camp
> begins July 3.
>
> Robert Paul
> Director
> Logic at Mutton 2006
>
> Visit us at inference.com
>
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