we learned in Math class in school. I haven't been over them in quite a while. I suppose if I google "contrapositive" I'd find all the correct ways to restate a proposition. For instance, I'd like to verify if this is a proper corollary - or a true restatement (this is an alternative to the previous phrase, not a clarification of it) - of the Golden Rule: you are to be treated as you treat others.
It strikes me as a more useful moral tenet.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
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Why should we philosophize logic when pure logic is simple math.
Personally I prefer Carroll's "Prim Misses", "Sillygisms", and "Delusions"...
I think fairies are dancing on your heads.
My wife missed taking her contrapositives and 9 months later we were parents.
Since it's your wife you're talking about I won't make the 'suppositive" joke I thought of.
The problem with your rearranging of the Golden Rule is that is has lost the "wish" part. Treat other as you wish to be treated.
You wish to be treated as other treat you. Any other expectation comes across as requiring that others treat you as you treat them and requiring leads to enforcing. Of course, there's nothing wrong with a little enforcing.
I'm thinking that the rule as I've stated it runs our unconscious mind. It causes the karmic reaction. If you get away with treating someone badly, you're inclined to up the ante until your bluff is called.
Happens to me all the time.
Poker metaphors... Anybody who doesn't understand 'em, needs to learn to play immediately. That's an order.
But don't forget the lesson(s) of the "Dead Man's Hand."
One of my plaintiffs is do unto others and then don't get crappy when they do unto you.
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