CmRet said:
Trivun said:
Socrates:
Mortals cross the road.
Chickens are mortal.
Therefore, chickens cross roads.
And if anybody understands what the hell that is meant to mean and represent, then you either do Mathematical Logic at university or you are a pretty smart and cultured cookie
I think I understand what it means. He may be talking about how we as mortals are people without direction and without direction we would just keep walking.
On topic: To get to it's eggs.
Hmmmmm, not quite. See, the clue is in the mention of Logic. I learned in my module that Socrates was one of the earliest pioneers of the entire subject of Mathematical Logic, and he came up with a series of what he called syllogisms. He came up with 19 which were meant to define propositional logic, i.e. logic involving certain statements implying various consequences. Each syllogism had a different rule. One of them was:
If A, then B.
If B, then C.
Therefore, if A, then C.
He used the following example to illustrate this:
All men are mortal.
Socrates is a man.
Therefore, Socrates is mortal.
I simply used that in the post. Not very original, but I guess that's not too much of a problem...