Re: Formal Logic in Western Science

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Jan 18 2003 - 13:28:29 MST


Lee Corbin wrote:
> State the logical conclusion:
>
> (1) No ducks waltz
> (2) No officers ever decline to waltz
> (3) All my poultry are ducks

I respectfully point out that, as it is extremely unlikely that anyone has
ever *asked* your poultry to waltz, they may well be officers.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence


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