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logicians proving useless things
Jun. 23rd, 2006 01:13 pmPremise: You cannot stand and sit at the same time.
Ergo: If you are sitting, you are not standing.
Furthermore: If you are sitting, you cannot be standing (given that you are sitting and you cannot sit and stand at the same time.)
Therefore: He who is sitting will always sit "since if he is sitting he will not stand up, because it is impossible that anything which cannot stand up should stand up" (the Megarians according to Aristotle.)
No wonder when I tell people that I'm a logician their entire face shuts down. "Ugh, logic!" was a fairly common response I got at the conference last week.
Ergo: If you are sitting, you are not standing.
Furthermore: If you are sitting, you cannot be standing (given that you are sitting and you cannot sit and stand at the same time.)
Therefore: He who is sitting will always sit "since if he is sitting he will not stand up, because it is impossible that anything which cannot stand up should stand up" (the Megarians according to Aristotle.)
No wonder when I tell people that I'm a logician their entire face shuts down. "Ugh, logic!" was a fairly common response I got at the conference last week.
