Good afternoon. I despise symbolic logic. I hate the way it is presented, in this book, i hate the way it excludes. I hate the fact that i was unable to get started on integrating it, until less than the week before the test. That's a long story, which i also hate. I hate that when i was told that all i could do was my best, my thoughts flew the that being *shudder* "Too Difficult."
The material is presented, here, with no background, and no basis. It excludes and boxes and defines in a way that, quite frankly, i don't care for. It grates on my very being as something exclusionary and bad. For me, at the very least. And i am reminded how much we still need walls and boxes, and so on, to help us, as humans, define things. It says that it's a new symbol system, to erase the ambiguities of the English language, but it is Exactly as ambiguous! It simply pretends, for the most part, that the other halves aren't There! "Assume, for our purposes, that all senses of 'or' shall be weak, or inclusive senses." BAH!
This shit is annoying the HELL out of me, and i must destroy it's very essence. Unfortunately, i have to learn it, and absorb it, and Destroy it, from within, by Monday. That's when the midterm, which is 50% of my grade, takes place. Monday?, i hear you query. Why that's Plenty of time!, you say. Fuck you. I've got many other engagements, and things to which i have devoted ATTENTION AND TIME, and no Gods DAMNED Symbolic Logic is going to rip the last few vestiges of my spring break from ME! NO sir! This is my time to RELAX! DAMNIT.
So that is what i'm going to do. I'm going to read, today, this symbollic logic, with the aid of a little Beethoven, a little Bach, a little Zimmer, and, last but not least, a Little Mozart. See me at the front, with the torch in hand, setting fire to it all, as i pass, and collecting the charred remains, behind me. They shall be put to good use. Logic, pale, pitiable thing that it is, shall be remade. Perhaps not by me, but believe you, sirs and madames, that i shall make an attempt.
Good Day.
The material is presented, here, with no background, and no basis. It excludes and boxes and defines in a way that, quite frankly, i don't care for. It grates on my very being as something exclusionary and bad. For me, at the very least. And i am reminded how much we still need walls and boxes, and so on, to help us, as humans, define things. It says that it's a new symbol system, to erase the ambiguities of the English language, but it is Exactly as ambiguous! It simply pretends, for the most part, that the other halves aren't There! "Assume, for our purposes, that all senses of 'or' shall be weak, or inclusive senses." BAH!
This shit is annoying the HELL out of me, and i must destroy it's very essence. Unfortunately, i have to learn it, and absorb it, and Destroy it, from within, by Monday. That's when the midterm, which is 50% of my grade, takes place. Monday?, i hear you query. Why that's Plenty of time!, you say. Fuck you. I've got many other engagements, and things to which i have devoted ATTENTION AND TIME, and no Gods DAMNED Symbolic Logic is going to rip the last few vestiges of my spring break from ME! NO sir! This is my time to RELAX! DAMNIT.
So that is what i'm going to do. I'm going to read, today, this symbollic logic, with the aid of a little Beethoven, a little Bach, a little Zimmer, and, last but not least, a Little Mozart. See me at the front, with the torch in hand, setting fire to it all, as i pass, and collecting the charred remains, behind me. They shall be put to good use. Logic, pale, pitiable thing that it is, shall be remade. Perhaps not by me, but believe you, sirs and madames, that i shall make an attempt.
Good Day.
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