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From: wjh@bonnie.UUCP (Bill Hery)
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Subject: Re: Roosters, eggs and logic
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 13:06:31 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 13:06:31 1986
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> > > > If you had a house that faced east and a rooster laid an egg on
> > > > the peak of the roof, which way would the egg fall?
> > > Why, downward, of course.
> >> 
> > Sorry, Bob, roosters don't lay eggs. Now, what do you call a person who fails
> > an Idiot Test?
> > 

A net full of computer scientists and mathematicians, and none of them knows any
logic?

"IF the rooster laid an egg it would fall downward" is correct even if a rooster
==

doesn't lay any eggs.  Furthermore, if "the rooster lays an egg" is always false,
then "If a rooster lays an egg" can be followed by ANY conclusion and still be
a true statement; e. g., "if a rooster lays an egg it will fall upward" is true.


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