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February 25, 2009
Which is Why We Have the Suffix "Ish"
So this is the little light reading.
Wouldn't blame you if you thought I meant Twitter. But I'm serious. This stuff fascinates me.
I'm only on page three of the abstract though.
I got distracted. See, I was, in fact, pondring superlatives earlier. While doing such, memories of a college Philosophy course popped into my head.
In retrospect it should have come as no surprise how quickly I took to the subject of Logic. Even my professor was surprised at the speed with which I could complete truth tables.
But wait. It gets better. In addition to the cold hard facts, it was also highly useful to learn definitively that there are some questions that cannot be answered definitively.
And for me, this all boils down to the concept of a question being rightly put.
A man lights a match, and then blows it out. He asks, "Which way did the fire go? North, South, East, or West?
The answer is, the question is not rightly put.
All the above, input to my thoughts, which led me to the argument of the beard, which asks at what point does a beard become gray.
Hard to say.
Written by Angela Tanner. February 25, 2009 04:16 PM