Friday, February 20, 2009

fuzzy logic

i once did an undergraduate course in symbolic logic*, an example of which went something like this:

all men are sinners
jesus christ was a man
jesus christ was a sinner


by emerging consensus, the focus on addressing terror has now shifted away from afghanistan:

pakistan is the root of all evil
great britain created pakistan
great britain is the mother of all evil
obama should now attack great britain


and so, by extension:

i must be genius
i don't have a job
all geniuses are unemployed
the unemployed have no income
einstein was a genius
people without an income are hungry
the hungry often steal
most geniuses are thieves
thieves are criminals
einstein was an unemployed, hungry, thief...


and so on, and so forth, but i'll stop here.

*post scriptum: in anticipation of failure, i dropped the course

1 comment:

Marianne said...

Where did you go to school? They obviously didn't teach you anything ;)