RE: What is Your Approach?
August 9, 2013 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2013 at 1:28 pm by Bad Writer.)
(August 9, 2013 at 1:25 pm)ITChick Wrote:(August 9, 2013 at 1:21 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Cheese wheels are round and yellow.
The moon is round and yellow.
The moon is made of cheese.
There needs to be a modicum of reason behind the use of logic.
Sparty, if I remember my logic course correctly, the answer to that one is that there is insufficient information to reach the third statement.
A correct one would be:
Everything that is round and yellow is cheese.
The moon is round and yellow.
The moon is made of cheese.
People reach these conclusions all the time with these ill-formed approaches. The starting point is important though, as you've illustrated. I think that's what fr0d0 is asking for.