![]() What do you do next? (Do any of the following) That last one thou, doesn't remind you of any type. Most of those were pretty obvious, seeing as they are pretty much colour-coded. You scan each Eevee's forms with the pokedex in turn, and it eturns an error message for each of them, although it does identify them as psychic, dark, grass, ice and types though. Even gramps, who prides himself on knowing every fucking thing about pokemon has no idea that eevee has more than three evolutions. Purple thing with a a tentacle tail, a red-eyed black thing with yellow bands, a yellow thing with green leaves growing out of it, a blue creature with diamond-shaped eyes and a weird haircut, and a fruity-looking pink thing covered in ribbons and bows. But this is not a rock, Eevee can freely transform between any of its evolutions!"Įevee is suddenly swept by a glowing nimbus of light, and rapidly changes shape between Flareon, Jolteon, vaporaeon, and. Therefore either this is a rock, or Eevee can freely transform between its evolutions. "This is a rock, and this is not a rock." You say, regarding your eevee who looks back in curiosity. You need it to be, like 70% more awesome. You release your eevee from its ball, and look at it. That was an entertaining diversion, but ultimately you have better things to do than mess with Ash all day. You also notice that back in his house in palette town, underpants as surreptitiously slinking out of his underwear drawer to the washing machine, to enter the Realm of Lost Socks. EX FALSO QUOD LIBET FREEWith a violent snap and a soft yelp of pain from Ash, the boxers snap, and fly free of his legs, flying off into the sky, where they join all of the underpants in his pack, and seem to fade from existence. In your minds eye, you see a vision of Ash yelping and clutching at his groin as his boxers make a spirited attempt to escape, straining against his legs in a bid for freedom. But this is not a rock, so I become aware of any misfortune that befalls Ash." Therefore either this is a rock, or I become aware of any misfortune that befalls Ash. "This is a rock, and this is not a rock." You say with a smirk. That was a problem easily remedied, with a little thought. “Well yeah, but due to ex falso quodlibet, 2+2=5 also implies that the Loch Ness monster does not exist”Īn extreme example, but as mathematician Terence Tao pointed out, it may show up from time to time.Īs a takeaway one-liner for remembering the principle, “absurdity begets absurdity”.The main problem with your previous trick was that you couldn't see its effects. Which, by ex falso quodlibet, translates into “2+2=5 implies that the Loch Ness monster exists” Or, let’s say your friend was making an argument that the Loch Ness monster exists, using “2+2=5” as a premise. “Well, if Lance was clean then I’m the queen of England” You’re arguing that he did, and you say something like Let’s say you’re arguing with a friend about whether Lance Armstrong used performance enhancing drugs. It also aids in understanding the structure of some snarky comments. Easier said than done, but ex falso quodlibet illustrates some downsides to keeping C around. Because otherwise, those contradictions could be used as evidence to ‘prove’ other false ideas. In a way, allowing that single contradiction in as a truth causes the entire framework to ‘explode’ ( ex falso quodlibet is also called the principle of explosion).īut besides being useful in proofs and in bending minds, what real-world significance does this have? It may help defend the claims that one probably shouldn’t believe false things, and that it’s probably a good idea to correct inconsistencies in things that one believes. In our example, ex falso quodlibet says that we can use the ‘true contradiction’ C to prove any statement to be true, regardless of whether the statement is actually true or not.īut wait, this means that we can prove that all “false” things are “true”, and then … everything is true! Ex falso quodlibet shows us that letting a contradiction slip into a logical framework eliminates any way of distinguishing between truth and falsehood. Intuitively, this doesn’t seem ‘good’, but why? What’s wrong with a ‘true contradiction’?Įx falso quodlibet helps answer this question.Įx falso quodlibetis a principle of classical logic stating that anything can be proven by using a contradiction as a premise. In other words, they claim that C is true, when it is actually false. Let’s say someone believed something that’s false, call it C (for ‘contradiction’), and they are using C in an argument. One example of this is “ ex falso quodlibet” – the principle that “from a contradiction, anything follows”. One of the things I like about studying logic and computation is using some of the rigorous mathematical ideas as a grounding for some everyday ‘intuitive’ ideas. ![]()
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