On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 8:28:55 AM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote: > On Aug 24, 2017 8:51 PM, "Larry Martell" wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 9:21 PM Rustom Mody wrote: > > > Statement 1: Aeroplanes fly > > Statement 2: Submarines swim > > > > > > Are these two statements equally acceptable? > > > > [Inspired by a talk by Noam Chomsky] > > There should be a corollary of Godwin's law for that idiot. > > > Chomsky borrowed it from Dijkstra, I think. > > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD898.html
I was about to start with the Dijkstra connection but then cut it because irrelevant However I find the two very different I think Dijkstra's "Can a submarine swim?" is almost entirely a mockery of the idea However Chomsky's laconic juxtaposition points to the deep non-rational programming in our subconscious mind of what we accept and what we dont [Larry seems to be angry about/at somethin'… No idea who/what…] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
