logic digression (was Re: Microsoft sponsoring CFUNITED-05)

2005-04-29 Thread Douglas Knudsen
If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. Now, IIRC, this is equivalent to If you are really dead then you are annoying nobody its been awile since those string of logic courses in the philo dept. So, if Sean is annoying you, it does not logically follow that he is alive. logic

RE: logic digression (was Re: Microsoft sponsoring CFUNITED-05)

2005-04-29 Thread Dave Watts
If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. Now, IIRC, this is equivalent to If you are really dead then you are annoying nobody its been awile since those string of logic courses in the philo dept. That's incorrect. Knowledge of symbolic logic is pretty important for

RE: logic digression (was Re: Microsoft sponsoring CFUNITED-05)

2005-04-29 Thread Matt Osbun
in the morning. And, who says logic isn't a mundane coding task? Matt Osbun Web Developer Health Systems, International -Original Message- From: Douglas Knudsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 11:50 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: logic digression (was Re: Microsoft

logic digression (was Re: Microsoft sponsoring CFUNITED-05)

2005-04-29 Thread Daniel Ganter
Arguably, ~(really alive) != ~living Dan If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. Now, IIRC, this is equivalent to If you are really dead then you are annoying nobody its been awile since those string of logic courses in the philo dept. So, if Sean is annoying you, it does not

Re: logic digression (was Re: Microsoft sponsoring CFUNITED-05)

2005-04-29 Thread Douglas Knudsen
symbolic logic is cake, its translating an English sentence into it that I always found to be a real PITA! So, If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. is equivalent to If you're really alive, then you're annoying somebody, I drove the negatives a little too far. okie...enough

Re: logic digression (was Re: Microsoft sponsoring CFUNITED-05)

2005-04-29 Thread Joe Rinehart
That's incorrect. Knowledge of symbolic logic is pretty important for programmers, so you may want to crack those books open again. Being annoying is necessary for being alive, according to Ms Atwood, but it is not sufficient. But there's the condition really alive in her quote that's

RE: logic digression (was Re: Microsoft sponsoring CFUNITED-05)

2005-04-29 Thread Dave Watts
That's incorrect. Knowledge of symbolic logic is pretty important for programmers, so you may want to crack those books open again. Being annoying is necessary for being alive, according to Ms Atwood, but it is not sufficient. But there's the condition really alive in her quote

Re: logic digression (was Re: Microsoft sponsoring CFUNITED-05)

2005-04-29 Thread Will Tomlinson
You guys have too much time on your hands. :) Will ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message:

Re: logic digression (was Re: Microsoft sponsoring CFUNITED-05)

2005-04-29 Thread Sean Corfield
On 4/29/05, Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That, however, is correct. Again, he could be dead, but I think it is more likely that he would be undead. Actually, that would explain a lot. Send. More. Cops. :) -- Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/ Team Fusebox -- http://fusebox.org/ Got