Thoth: Egyptian God of Wisdom, Magic and Language (mr_ibis) wrote in deities_dot_com, @ 2012-06-27 15:00:00 |
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Entry tags: | ~bragi, ~thoth |
Discourse on Syllogism [open]
Thoth was fond of Berkeley. The campus was attractive, the students were generally pretty intelligent and overall it had a nice, relaxed, homey feel to it. He enjoyed just listening to students postulate on things, come to various and usually incorrect conclusions without piecing together their arguments properly. It was what happened when young minds thought they were right on the basis of no one ever having had proven them wrong.
This was why he frequented a coffee shop not far from the campus and lounged in an overstuffed chair with his nose in a book nearly the couches and a barely touched cup of Earl Grey. The location in the establishment was key. This was where the liberal arts students congregated, specifically the philosophy students. Especially the young and new ones.
Today there was much postulation on syllogisms and the logic behind those arguments. It was a concept simple enough for even the most lax of armchair philosophers to grasp. A syllogism had a simple format: premise, premise, conclusion. They were discussing the most famous of examples at the moment:
All Men are Mortal
Socrates is a Man,
Therefore, Socrates is Mortal
All cheese is from the moon
Chocolate is a cheese
Therefore chocolate is from the moon.