Comments on: Left as an exercise to the student: Earwigs are icky because…? http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/06/25/earwigs-are-icky-because Pontification without all the gritty gravitas Thu, 17 May 2012 22:47:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tozier http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/06/25/earwigs-are-icky-because/comment-page-1#comment-1080 Tozier Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:30:14 +0000 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/06/25/left-as-an-exercise-to-the-student-earwigs-are-icky-because#comment-1080 Yum. Shrimp. Yum. Shrimp.

]]> By: son1 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/06/25/earwigs-are-icky-because/comment-page-1#comment-1079 son1 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:11:13 +0000 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/06/25/left-as-an-exercise-to-the-student-earwigs-are-icky-because#comment-1079 No no, you misunderstand. My formulae are not derived empirically, they are <i>given</i>. Shrimp cannot be cute or tasty <i>by definition</i>. My logic defines the bounds of my perception, not the other way around. No no, you misunderstand. My formulae are not derived empirically, they are given. Shrimp cannot be cute or tasty by definition. My logic defines the bounds of my perception, not the other way around.

]]> By: Tozier http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/06/25/earwigs-are-icky-because/comment-page-1#comment-1072 Tozier Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:20:14 +0000 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/06/25/left-as-an-exercise-to-the-student-earwigs-are-icky-because#comment-1072 One tasty shrimp, though, or one pet hermit crab, and all your crows suddenly <i>might be</i> white. One tasty shrimp, though, or one pet hermit crab, and all your crows suddenly might be white.

]]> By: son1 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/06/25/earwigs-are-icky-because/comment-page-1#comment-1071 son1 Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:08:48 +0000 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/06/25/left-as-an-exercise-to-the-student-earwigs-are-icky-because#comment-1071 it is axiomatic: <i>all arthropods are icky.</i> Or, to put it rather more oddly, "arthropod(X) implies icky(X)" And you've got a whole buncho arthropod(X). I apply modus ponens, QED. it is axiomatic: all arthropods are icky. Or, to put it rather more oddly, “arthropod(X) implies icky(X)”

And you’ve got a whole buncho arthropod(X).

I apply modus ponens, QED.

]]>