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- From: kean@cs.ubc.ca (Alex Kean)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Re: Are all crows black? => Logic as an essential subject?
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 15:55:37 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- References: <BxGFw2.AJv@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1992Nov11.225953.231@galois.mit.edu> <MARTINC.92Nov12021908@hatteras.cs.unc.edu>
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- In article <MARTINC.92Nov12021908@hatteras.cs.unc.edu> martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.
- >
- >Let's not put Will off of syllogistic logic, though, please. There are
- >too many people graduating as it is without knowing the difference
- >between "All men are mortal/Socrates is a man -> Socrates is mortal" and
- >"All men are mortal/Socrates is mortal -> Socrates is a man".
- >
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- I have not graduated yet, what is the difference?
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- Best Regards,
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- Alex Kean <kean@cs.ubc.ca>
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