Social Media Logic Leap

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"And you know what they're really saying..."

It's not just social media, but it's bad there. You take one sentence or a two-second clip, and then you stretch it, distort it and refute the distortions.

I've seen a two-second clip with commentary like, "Really? Does that mean that X? Won't that lead to Y and Z?" And they're on a roll. All this despite the fact that if you look at a seven-second clip or - Heaven Forbid! - 30 seconds or the complete response, it's quite obvious that, no, it doesn't mean X, Y, or even Z, whatever those stand for.

And even if those points aren't addressed, no one will ever ask. They'll just accuse because that's easier.

That's why I do math and apply actual logic. I prefer the challenge.

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You Have to Spend Money

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Not the same thing at all.

Today's logic lesson: If someone tells you that you have to spend money to make money, don't for one moment believe that they're saying that if you spend money then you will make money. Those statements are not logically equivalent.

If the former case, you can spend money and not make money. The first statement doesn't say that you actually will make money if you spend money, only that you won't make money if you do not. This statement is only false if you make money without spending any.

What they'd like you to hear is the second statement, which is a more traditional p then q statement. In this instance, you may or may not make money without spending money. On the other hand, the statement is false if you spend money and don't make money.

Many poor planners or investors will tell you that it's quite possible that you can spend money and not make money. You hope and plan for a better outcome.

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Getting Me Down

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Then rainy Mondays must be the worst! Especially if you argue with someone who's playing you like a song.

This comic was inspired by a rainy Monday, and the fact that I think I hear snippets of this song on the radio more on rainy Mondays than any other time. And that's silly.

To explain what's going on in the Venn diagram, the intersection of Rainy Days and Mondays are Rainy Mondays. However, Karen Carpenter quite clearly sings that "rainy days and Mondays always get me down" not that "rainy Mondays get me down". That means if it's a "rainy day", it gets her down, and if it's a "Monday", it gets her down. It could be one OR the other, OR it could be both. (Indeed, once you have one, you don't need to check the other because the condition has been fulfilled.)

So was Ms. Carpenter NOT down on Not Rainy days that were other days of the week?

We actually don't know that. We only know that either of these two conditions got her down. That's not to say that there aren't other conditions that would've gotten her down which did not fit into the lyrics of the song. However, it is safe to say that she might have had a bummer of sunny Thursday.

What gets me down is that I didn't get this comic up on Monday. And the amount of time between comics, of course.

Final question: Did you think from the title that this was going to be a gravity joke? Just wondering.

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(x, why?) Mini: Roads Less Traveled

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It made all the difference to the Truth Table.

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Lips and Lies

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Three chances out of four that's true.

But truth tables mean little to nothing to some people.

For the sake of argument: some ventriloquists lie a lot without moving their lips.

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You Snooze, You Lose, Part II

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It is not the case that if one does lose, then one did snooze.

C'mon! The previous comic was screaming out for a Truth Table!




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Twisted Logic? Nay!

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(C)Copyright 2019, C. Burke.

Now think before you filly the blanks.

Sorry for the two unrelated jokes and are less unrelated than you may imagine.

I can't state my case any more plane than that. Tap tap. (Final thought: Mike's name was originally going to be Ed, but I wouldn't go with a Mister Ed joke now, would I? I mean, except for that time that I actually did?

Hard to believe, the Horses tag was already there!




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How To Tell the Contradiction

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(C)Copyright 2018, C. Burke.

Loving would easy if your numbers were like my dreams: fourteen oh three, fourteen oh thre-ee-ee!!

The original truth table for this was going to be way too complicated for this joke.

Oh, and if you're reading this on the blog, this is comic #1403, which just worked out that way. I pretty much just needed a three at the end.




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Serene Logic

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(C)Copyright 2018, C. Burke.

A genius should know the difference between conjunction not a disjunction. And be glad it isn't biconditional.

But as a medical professional, he would have access to those pills. Just don't grab any guns or knives.




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No Buts About It

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Or just a simple set up.

Mathematically, AND and BUT are the same thing.

I meant to do my homework BUT I forgot.

I meant to do my homework AND I forgot.




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Don't Think, So?

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(C)Copyright 2017, C. Burke.

I've heard variations enough to think we put Descartes in front of a dead horse, beaten with the same puns.

Of course, if we set the Wayback Machine to 2010, we've tackled Descartes before.




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(x, why?) Mini: Think Proof

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Not to be confused with 'Thinkproof' or even 'Thoughtproof', which almost seems to describe some average adults I know.




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(x, why?) Mini: What's True?

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Math. Math is to say what's true. It's called Logic.




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(x, why?) Mini: Speak Truth to Power

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Pretty much gave up the pun in the title this time, huh?

You know, "2b | ~2b" works as well, but it doesn't read the same!




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Boole

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(C)Copyright 2015, C. Burke.

I could XOR-iate myself for being a few days late. If that sort of thing were possible.




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(x, why?) Mini: Boolean

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(C)Copyright 2015, C. Burke.

If (isfunny) then leave-praise-share else nevermind

Boolean is a logical value equal to True or False and is used in logic (such as in computer programming).

The interesting thing about them was when I found out that False has a zero value, but True isn't equal to 1. In fact, True is simply "not zero", literally any value other than zero (or possibly "null", which is something else and I'm not going there right now).

That means that in situations where you might write "If x != 0 then" (Note: != mean "not equal to" in many computer languages"), you could just write "If x then" because any value other than 0 (which we didn't want) would evaluate as True! This was great! ... except that my professors condemned this as "clever coding" which was harder to read, decipher and maintain, so Don't Do It.

I'm not a programmer by trade any more, but from what I read, clever coding could be the standard, for all I know, because it executes faster, and it's more of a feature of languages like C than it was of PL/I or Pascal.

Final note: "Boolean" is named after George Boole, so it gets a capital "B", like "Venn diagram".

Oh, and this is a bullion cube joke, if you didn't get that. You don't use "Boolean cubes", except maybe in roleplaying games.




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Pass/Fail Fail

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(C)Copyright 2015, C. Burke.

Don't make me pull out the truth tables!




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Blanket Statement

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(C)Copyright 2015, C. Burke.

Blanket statements are always wrong. Think about it.

I'm having a flashback to logic lessons where we took apart statements like "All the classrooms are too cold." and had to negate it properly. First thing, the opposite of "All" in NOT "None" (any more than "too cold" could be changed to "too warm"). The opposite of "All" is "Not All". Or "Some" (which could mean one because it would only take one room to disprove the statement). And then there was the ever-popular "There Exists a Room Such That ..."