/sci/ - A logic exercise

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 8:28

prove or disprove the following statement: "every general statement has exceptions"

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 8:38

Define statement. Define general statement. Define exception.

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 9:59

>>2 how about you open a textbook on introductory logic instead

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 14:07 (sage)

>>2
How about you stop acting like you can argue and follow >>3's advice?

Name: zeppy !GuxAK3zcH. 2006-02-02 15:38

>>2
O MAN UR INTELLIGENT

>>1
Thinking in the General is macro-level, while iterating something in a micro level reveals general's flaws and outliers.

Name: zeppy !GuxAK3zcH. 2006-02-02 15:46

Exceptions lie within general itself, so in that something is being generalized it will very likely have exceptions

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 16:23

"In general" is the statistically most likely occurance or a range within a range of possibilities. If there is only one occurance possible then you do not use "in general" and clearly state iti s the only occurance.

Therefore there are other possible occurances or occurances which outly what has been proven to be "in general".

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 16:42

Correct. Here's another easy one.

x^(1/x) = a, find x in terms of a

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 17:34

Couldn't you have a general statement that is also a tautology?

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-21 14:31

>>8 Didn't we just have this thread and I totally owned it?

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-21 14:58 (sage)

>>10
Nice try. However I was the one who came up with the answer for that one.

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-22 3:27

>>10
>>11
Actually it was me you lying fags.

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-22 3:57

>>10
>>11
>>12
Will the real thread owner please stand up?

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-22 4:33 (sage)

Will all of you shut the hell up? This is an anonymous fucking messageboard, if someone wanted to be distinguished for their ideas they would've TRIPFAGGED THEMSELVES FIRST. GOD.

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-23 17:53

>>14
how do I tripcoided name?#

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-23 18:19

number1

lookup the word caviat

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-23 21:55

>>16
IT'S SPELT "CAVEAT" MOTHERFUCKER.

Go back to "Latin for Dummies".

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-26 1:07

The very fact that such a clause has both possibilities (of being proven and of being disproven) and shall keep both,proves its limited message.

for not only are our methods limited- but the contexts in which we use them as well.

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-26 20:44

>>1

Disproof by counter-example:

Everyone who posted in this thread is silly.

(This also holds true if the word general is replaced with the word universal, or the word silly.)

A logic exercise

1 Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 8:28

2 Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 8:38

3 Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 9:59

4 Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 14:07 (sage)

5 Name: zeppy !GuxAK3zcH. 2006-02-02 15:38

6 Name: zeppy !GuxAK3zcH. 2006-02-02 15:46

7 Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 16:23

8 Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 16:42

9 Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 17:34

10 Name: Anonymous 2006-02-21 14:31

11 Name: Anonymous 2006-02-21 14:58 (sage)

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14 Name: Anonymous 2006-02-22 4:33 (sage)

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19 Name: Anonymous 2006-02-26 20:44