[Tango-L] Dancing socially to Piazzolla

Alexis Cousein al at sgi.com
Tue Jul 22 02:06:09 EDT 2008


Alexis Cousein wrote:
> But if you want to draw "conclusions" from this, you must clearly
> learn how to form the negative of some boolean operators correctly
> to avoid logical fallacies 
> 

"Dicto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter", also known in some
variants as "proof by example" (just in case someone is still in
doubt, that's not a valid form of proof).

"Some swans I've seen are white, so all swans are white".

"Some Piazzolla numbers I've heard are undanceable, so..."

(left as an exercise to the reader).


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Alexis Cousein                                  al at sgi.com
Senior Systems Engineer/Solutions Architect     SGI/Silicon Graphics
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<If I have seen further, it is by standing on reference manuals>




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