{"id":13962,"date":"2012-01-24T16:16:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T21:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2012\/01\/24\/13962.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:03:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:03:42","slug":"a-syllogism-composed-whilst-sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2012\/01\/24\/a-syllogism-composed-whilst-sh\/","title":{"rendered":"A Syllogism, composed whilst shoveling snow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Major Premise: No-one understands John Shaft but his woman<\/a>.\n

Minor Premise: Isaac Hayes is not John Shaft’s woman<\/a>. (See Lemma).\n

Conclusion 1: Isaac Hayes does not understand John Shaft.
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Minor Premise 2: Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, dar\u00fcber muss man schweigen<\/i><\/a>\n

Conclusion 2: Shut your mouth!\n

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n

Lemma: If we assume that there is a set P<\/i> of people who understand John Shaft<\/i>, a person p<\/i> is in the set P<\/i> iff p<\/i> is John Shaft’s woman, that is, in J<\/i> intersect W<\/i>, where objects are in J<\/i> iff they have a relationship with John Shaft, and objects are in W<\/i> iff they are women. Further, it is the case that the intersection of W<\/i> and M<\/I> is the null set, where objects are in M<\/i> iff they are men. Therefore, it can be seen that P<\/i> intersect M<\/i> is the null set. But Isaac Hayes is in the set M<\/a>! Therefore Isaac Hayes is not John Shaft’s woman.\n

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*This is actually false; in fact W<\/i> intersect M<\/i> is simply ill-defined.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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