Re: Confessions of a CoBOL programmer

On 28 Mar, 22:06, docdw...@xxxxxxxxx () wrote:

'How many of you think that all men are mortal?' (hands up)
'How many of you think that Socrates is a man?' (hands up)
'How many of you think that Socrates is mortal?'  'Uh..... maybe I was
wrong when I said I thought all men are mortal... or maybe Socrates isn't
a man now.'

Tsk! Tsk! Even you should know better than to ask these questions.

Men ARE mortal.
Socrates WAS a man.
Socrates has been proven to be mortal (for most peoples' value of
PROVEN).




Or it could be that the definitions of "problems a community has" and
"problems that a company has" are related.

Of course, that might be your point.

What I attempted to demonstrate, Mr Brazee, was that the logical abilities
demonstrated by some folks in Corporate America can reach levels of
refusing to accept things which 'follow of necessity'.

(note - Aristotle, Prior Analytics, Book I, Part 1, paragraph 4, sentence
1: 'A syllogism is discourse in which, certain things being stated,
something other than what is stated follows of necessity from their being
so. I mean by the last phrase that they produce the consequence, and by
this, that no further term is required from without in order to make the
consequence necessary.' -http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/prior.mb.txt)

Have you been a student of philosophy or should I be enquiring as to
how you can afford the time to research all of your answers? Not that
answering a question (or non-question) with a question is indeed an
answer.

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