(still laughing over "It looked like a tooth, so I ate it.")
Heh. I left out the More Exciting Stories, out of kindness (to msbelle, although we'd sure love to hear those, too).
Walking I get. But power walking? Why not just run for a shorter time?
Angel ,'Time Bomb'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 06, 2006 1:17:31 pm PDT #6411 of 10001
What is even happening?
Lee - Sep 06, 2006 1:17:37 pm PDT #6412 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
What they all said, msbelle. I hope you keep telling us this much, or actually more.
I'm also internally squeeing since I might be in NYC for the court date.
§ ita § - Sep 06, 2006 1:31:13 pm PDT #6413 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Please help me because I'm stupid:
IN THE 1940s a philosopher called Carl Hempel showed that by manipulating the logical statement “all ravens are black”, you could derive the equivalent “all non-black objects are non-ravens”. Such topsy-turvy transformations might seem reason enough to keep philosophers locked up safely on university campuses, where they cannot do too much damage.
Uh, what's weird about that? I am either too stupid to get it, or too logical (quite possibly both--that's not an XOR there). I worry that if I don't get it, there's no point reading the rest of the article on negative databases. Or maybe I do get it, and wonder why people haven't been databasing negatively this whole time.
amych - Sep 06, 2006 1:37:30 pm PDT #6414 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Best to keep me locked up on campus, because my first thought was "pq equivalent to ~p~q was hardly news in the 40s".
Jesse - Sep 06, 2006 1:48:00 pm PDT #6415 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
ok, so I should tell you all that I got a report card? and his behavior was very good in all classes?
Dude, seriously? Love.
§ ita § - Sep 06, 2006 1:48:02 pm PDT #6416 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No shit.
edit: That was to amych, but works well to Jesse
§ ita § - Sep 06, 2006 1:54:36 pm PDT #6417 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, some googling reveals:
Hempel's confirmation paradox. According to Boolean logic, "all ravens are black" is equivalent to "all nonblack entities are nonravens". That is,schematically, "(raven --> black) --> (not-black --> not-raven)". This is a straightforward consequence of the standard definition of implication. But is it not the case that, if A and B are equivalent hypotheses, evidence in favor of B is evidence in favor of A. It follows that every observation of something which is not black and also not a raven is evidence that ravens are black. This is patently absurd.
Okay, that makes sense. In that it's not supposed to. Now I'm going to read the rest of the article guardedly.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 06, 2006 1:56:05 pm PDT #6418 of 10001
What is even happening?
I just got spam from "doesnt exist." I think it was trying to take my money.
Narrator?
msbelle - Sep 06, 2006 1:59:06 pm PDT #6419 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
tommyrot - Sep 06, 2006 1:59:43 pm PDT #6420 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Uh, what's weird about that?
Yeah, it's your standard, run-of-the-mill contrapositive.