On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:08 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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…]
I think Chomsky is a jerk, and I'm angry at media outlets like CNN giving him a forum to spew his idiocies. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
