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TheStudDuck!:
--- Quote from: DavidinHartford on January 03, 2007, 04:56:20 pm ---LOL ! My ex girlfriend bought a keytag that says: All the Good men are Married, Gay or Crazy".
Boy was she right! After I broke up with her, the next guy she met was also gay, then she ended up with a married guy. He left his wife and married her. Now which one was crazy? ::)
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Depends on who her new hubby was originally married to. If it was, say... Ann Coulter... then the crazy one is Gay Guy #2.
:)
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on January 03, 2007, 04:42:19 pm ---Ugly gay guys exist? I thought the rule was that all the good looking guys were either 1) gay or 2) married...
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That rule doesn't work both ways. "All good-looking guys are either 1) gay or 2) married" does NOT mean "All guys who are 2) married or 1) gay are good-looking."
;) :laugh:
TheStudDuck!:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 03, 2007, 10:45:02 pm ---That rule doesn't work both ways. "All good-looking guys are either 1) gay or 2) married" does NOT mean "All guys who are 2) married or 1) gay are good-looking."
;) :laugh:
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Good catch, Jeff! I didn't even realize that!
In philosophy, they refer to this illogical argument as "Affirming the Consequent."
You see, the logical argument that it uses as an attempt to be rational is "Modus Ponens" which states: "If p then q." (Affirming the Consequent assumes that the consequent [q] goes hand-in-hand with the proposition [p], which isn't so.)
Sorry, I'm a philosophy / sociology major. I got an A in deductive reasonsing. :D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: TheStudDuck! on January 03, 2007, 11:21:42 pm ---Sorry, I'm a philosophy / sociology major. I got an A in deductive reasonsing. :D
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Cool! Congratulations, David! Maybe some day you can explain Descartes to me. Never did quite get that Cogito, ergo sum business. ... :D
TheStudDuck!:
Descartes! "I think, therefore I am." (I've seriously considered tattooing "cogito ergo sum" on my body.)
There's really only one thing that you need to know, and it's that he thinks nothing can be proven other than that you, yourself exist. He tried to disprove everything that he could and go back to the roots of what he could no for sure, and in doing so he only knew one thing for certain. That being that he was actually able to question and doubt beliefs, which meant that he was thinking. And if he's thinking, then he, himself, must exist, for even if something was deceiving him... the fact that he was actually being deceived proved that there was something to deceive. (If that makes sense.)
And if I'm not mistaken, I do believe that "I think, therefore I am," is a misquote... much the same way "play it again, Sam" is.
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