lunes, 15 de octubre de 2012

Bad sex is better than good sex

Now, consider what happens when we apply the same transitivity rule in the case illustrated below. The form of the argument is the same as before, but the conclusion is somewhat less believable. The problem in this case is that the use of nothing here is syntactically similar to the use of beer in the preceding example, but in English it means something entirely different.

Bad sex is better than nothing.
Nothing is better than good sex.
Therefore, bad sex is better than good sex.

Leído en la introducción del curso Introduction to Logic, Coursera

2 comentarios:

sulaco dijo...

La lógica siempre ha tenido su lado retorcido. Jolín con tu cosa para demostrar que no soy un robot. La mitad de las veces no entiendo el número, y van 3 intentos ...

Luis dijo...

Pásaselo a un experto en lenguaje y verás como te destruye esa falsa transitividad ;-)