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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-13-10 07:49 PM Original message |
Start with a true sentence. Replace a sub-formula with its contrapositive. Is result true? |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-13-10 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
1. You go first. nt |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-13-10 07:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I did go first. I started the thread. |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-13-10 08:01 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. And I bookmarked it, in the event someone understands where you're coming from. nt |
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Lint Head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-13-10 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
3. And a partridge in a pear tree. |
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Tansy_Gold (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-13-10 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
4. Sometimes. n/t |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-13-10 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
6. 0 + 0 = 1 for very large values of 0. But seriously... |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 01:57 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. "If the moon is made of green cheese then 0 = 0" seems a little misleading |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 11:06 AM Response to Reply #10 |
17. "But really, they are unrelated and implication doesn't come into the picture at all." |
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WheelWalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-11 06:16 PM Response to Reply #6 |
27. +1 |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-13-10 08:14 PM Response to Original message |
7. The statement is true. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-22-10 10:07 AM Response to Reply #7 |
24. When you wrote that, did you intend to assert that the following statement is true? |
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WheelWalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-11 06:18 PM Response to Reply #7 |
28. Unless your statement is false. |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 06:52 AM Response to Original message |
8. If the Repubs have their way, no one will have access to contrapositives |
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qazplm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 11:13 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. well played |
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Thor_MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 10:22 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I thought the GOP WAS the Party of Countrapositives. |
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Dr. Strange (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 11:50 AM Response to Reply #8 |
21. If some one has access to contrapositives, then the Repubs have not had their way. |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
12. You lost me at "start with a true sentence." |
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WheelWalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-11 06:19 PM Response to Reply #12 |
29. A "true sentence" is a term of art.... |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
13. Kick |
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Ready4Change (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
14. I reject your initial statement. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 06:55 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. If you intend to reject as meaningless every statement that refers to an expression of the form X/0 |
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Ready4Change (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 11:31 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Who wrote your code? |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 10:12 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Occasionally I've wondered that myself about our friend Boojatta |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-02-10 06:34 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Only if you limit yourself to the real number system |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-02-10 04:16 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Yes, for example hyperreals are used in model theory |
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Dr. Strange (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
22. Okay. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 11:58 AM Response to Reply #22 |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-11 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
25. Kick |
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DetlefK (449 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-11 05:05 PM Response to Original message |
26. You are wrong. Here is my counter-proof: |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 04:56 AM Response to Original message |
30. In most logical systems, the universe implies a tautology. |
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BadgerKid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
31. Original statement could be T or not well formed depending.... |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 11:47 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. If you say that "0/0 isn't equal to 25" isn't well-formed, then you're not finished. |
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