From sfurlong@acmenet.net Tue Apr 30 01:36:33 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: sfurlong@acmenet.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 30 Apr 2002 08:36:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 1115 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2002 08:36:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 30 Apr 2002 08:36:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.acmenet.net) (206.152.182.74) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Apr 2002 08:36:33 -0000 Received: from acmenet.net (wx.phoen-x.net [208.171.236.113] (may be forged)) by mail.acmenet.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g3U8a0i20696 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 04:36:00 -0400 Sender: steve@mail.acmenet.net Message-ID: <3CCE5810.6E06C30A@acmenet.net> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 04:38:40 -0400 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] So you think you're logical? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Steve Furlong X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=35264816 And Rosta wrote: > (I got my wife to do it, since she's always telling me she's 100 > times more logical than me; she got 0 out of 4, which delighted > but did not surprise me.) [u'i] People who make statements like that will tend to do worse than the overall population, because statements like that are not logical: a person's "logicalness" probably can't be measured accurately, and the person making the statement probably hasn't made any measurement at all. (My ex-wife was constantly making statements like that. She maintained that she had much more real-world common sense than I, which no doubt explains the mountain of credit-card debt and the acquisition of four master's degrees (and the debt appertaining thereto) which have thus far been singularly useless in the acquisition of paying work. [ga'i i'enai ionai uunai] ) -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw