"It should be noted that the contradictory opposite of a disjunctive proposition is a conjunctive proposition composed of the contradictories of the parts of the disjunctive proposition."
-- William of Ockham, Summa Logicae
I think there's something in that for all of us.
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 May 14 2006, 2:05 am
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May 14 2006, 2:17 am
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SuperSaiyanGokuX
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I believe you're right... What I'm taking away from it is the irony of the identity of the speaker of the quote...
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Haha. I didn't even make that connection before I posted this. :-)
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Hm, I'm not stalking you yet.
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Talk about obfuscation. Too bad the author didn't write in C, or he could have just said !(a || b) == (!a && !b) instead.
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/me "maps out the sentence to figure out its meaning"
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You should see the stuff Ema has to do for her logic work.
Let's just say I'm glad that I like to do programming, not philosophy. | |
This comes into play in electronics, too. When I was in college my professor showed the neat trick of changing an OR or NOR gate to a NAND or AND, or vice-versa. On the gate symbols there's a bubble to represent a "not" output or input. Just change the gate symbol from one to the other, and toggle all the in/out bubbles. Of course this method doesn't work for an XOR gate or NXOR.
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*head explodes*
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Pfft, it's like saying that the opposite of the word "nice" is the word that means the opposite of the word "nice." What a quote; he should be tarred and feathered. :)
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