DK: Some visual aids for Dana Perino

[FourScore]

It seems like Dana Perino has trouble with Aristotelian logic concerning whether she was implying that waterboarding is legal. Since she, and so many others in the administration, seem to have trouble with basic facts and logic, I've decided to step in with visual cues in the form of Ven Diagrams, which are often used as aids to demonstrate the principles of logic to more...shall we say...visual learners.

So--let's get started with the concept of what is legal:



Now, moving on. See, in Aristotelian logic, the phrase "All A are B" can be represented in a ven diagram by inserting a circle representing "A" inside a circle representing "B". So, if you have "all Zebras are mammals", you would have your "zebra circle" inside your "mammals circle."

Similarly: when Dana Perino says that "everything we've done is legal", that implies that the "everything we've done" circle should go inside the "legal" circle, like this:



Moving on, then! Now that the CIA has admitted to waterboarding terrorism suspects, we can add "waterboarding" into the realm of things we've done, like so:



Of course, given the fact that the "everything we've done" circle already fits into the "legal" circle, we can expand our horizons a little bit, like this:



MORE AT:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/11/19426/368/167/420873

[goclark]

1. Clear as a Bell! K and R

[robinlynne]

2. Had you been alive in greece a few thousand years ago, they would call you a philosopher!