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- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Re: Are all crows black? => Logic as an essential
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.231756.17396@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 04:17:56 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.225953.231@galois.mit.edu> <MARTINC.92Nov12021908@hatteras.cs.unc.edu> <1duqtpINNjl1@columbia.cs.ubc.ca>
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- In article <1duqtpINNjl1@columbia.cs.ubc.ca>
- kean@cs.ubc.ca (Alex Kean) writes:
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- >In article <MARTINC.92Nov12021908@hatteras.cs.unc.edu>
- >martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu writes:
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- CM:
- >>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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- AK:
- >I have not graduated yet, what is the difference?
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- Validity. (This is truly depressing.)
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- AK:
- >Best Regards,
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- Have you considered a career in feminist computer science?
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- >Alex Kean <kean@cs.ubc.ca>
- >
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- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- " -- I shall speak bluntly, because life is short."
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