Well ain't that a hoot!

[herveus]

How To Deconstruct Almost Anything (http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html) showed up on http://del.icio.us/popular/ this morning. It's a hoot!

I found myself thinking of the immense convenience of lugging around a set of assertions (axioms) that contain a contradiction. Indirect proof is a wonderful thing, and if you can simply assert P and ~P by selecting appropriate axioms, or you can derive ~P from P at will, you can logically prove anything you want. It's so convenient.

Comments

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

And this sums up nicely part of the reason why I went from being an English lit major to being a logician.

[wulfsdottir.livejournal.com]

Thank you - that was delightful.

[nikulai.livejournal.com]

And black is white ... and be careful at zebra crossings.