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SDHoops



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PostPosted: 06/14/17 2:33 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote


Me to the purple rose colored glasses including the W




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justintyme



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PostPosted: 06/14/17 2:33 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

GlennMacGrady wrote:
justintyme wrote:
GlennMacGrady wrote:
premisses (not premises)...

That would be news to me (and all my logic textbooks)...



That's because you're a post-modernist and I'm a classicist or archaist.

My formal logic professor insisted we use the spelling in William Van Ormand Quine's textbook and that used by Russell and Whitehead in their Principia Mathematica. I still recall his distinction: "The 'premisses' are the logical propositions we're studying; the 'premises' is the building in which we are studying them."

"Premiss" seems to be losing the usage battle in our cultural decline back into the Hobbesian state of nature, but yet:

http://logic-rhetoric.livejournal.com/1079.html?nojs=1

Very Happy Fair enough. That was what I guessed in my other post, since you are seldom inaccurate. Since I knew that "premises" was/is commonly used in academic writings and references it seemed this was the most likely reason for your statement.

Funny enough, even though I am a post-modernist and would therefore be inclined to such fluidity of language, I was not even aware that there was such a stance. The debate over it never even came up during my studies. That being the case, I love that I know about this now!



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PostPosted: 06/14/17 9:30 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Jet Jaguar wrote:
What happened to this thread?


Have you ever tried to herd cats?

Now, have you ever tried to teach cats to herd?

Okay. Now, try teaching cats to herd cats.

(In other words, one of the things I find most amusing about Board Junkies- myself included- is how easily we're distracted and how difficult it is to keep people from going off on tangents.)



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PostPosted: 06/15/17 10:03 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Queenie wrote:
Jet Jaguar wrote:
What happened to this thread?


Have you ever tried to herd cats?

Now, have you ever tried to teach cats to herd?

Okay. Now, try teaching cats to herd cats.

(In other words, one of the things I find most amusing about Board Junkies- myself included- is how easily we're distracted and how difficult it is to keep people from going off on tangents.)


Tangents? Only tangents? Conic sections are important too -- think about the proper arc for a shot and of course conic sections jump into your mind.

And I thought everybody used Aristotle and zone attack in the same breath.



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PostPosted: 06/15/17 2:11 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Queenie wrote:
Have you ever tried to herd cats?

Now, have you ever tried to teach cats to herd?

Okay. Now, try teaching cats to herd cats.


(In other words, one of the things I find most amusing about Board Junkies- myself included- is how easily we're distracted and how difficult it is to keep people from going off on tangents.)


I guess you never saw this commercial... Razz

https://youtu.be/vTwJzTsb2QQ



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PostPosted: 06/15/17 2:18 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

ClayK wrote:
Conic sections are important too -- think about the proper arc for a shot and of course conic sections jump into your mind.


I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous



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PostPosted: 06/15/17 2:52 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

pilight wrote:
ClayK wrote:
Conic sections are important too -- think about the proper arc for a shot and of course conic sections jump into your mind.


I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous

Man, I love that play. I have ever since I heard Geordi sing that song on ST:TNG and looked it up for the first time.



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