Re: Confessions of a CoBOL programmer

On 28 Mar, 22:06, docdw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 'How many of you think that all men are mortal?' (hands up)
> 'How many of you think that Socrates is a man?' (hands up)
> 'How many of you think that Socrates is mortal?' =A0'Uh..... maybe I was
> wrong when I said I thought all men are mortal... or maybe Socrates
isn't
> a man now.'

Tsk! Tsk! Even you should know better than to ask these questions.

Men ARE mortal.
Socrates WAS a man.
Socrates has been proven to be mortal (for most peoples' value of
PROVEN).

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>
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> >Or it could be that the definitions of "problems a community has" and
> >"problems that a company has" are related.
>
> >Of course, that might be your point.
>
> What I attempted to demonstrate, Mr Brazee, was that the logical
abilities=

> demonstrated by some folks in Cor****ate America can reach levels of
> refusing to accept things which 'follow of necessity'.
>
> (note - Aristotle, Prior Analytics, Book I, Part 1, paragraph 4,
sentence
> 1: 'A syllogism is discourse in which, certain things being stated,
> something other than what is stated follows of necessity from their
being
> so. I mean by the last phrase that they produce the consequence, and by
> this, that no further term is required from without in order to make the
> consequence necessary.' -http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/prior.mb.txt)

Have you been a student of philosophy or should I be enquiring as to
how you can afford the time to research all of your answers? Not that
answering a question (or non-question) with a question is indeed an
answer.