Received: by 10.224.213.1 with SMTP id gu1mr14085119qab.7.1349110214070;
        Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:50:14 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.236.170.7 with SMTP id o7mr1608706yhl.3.1349110214035; Mon, 01
 Oct 2012 09:50:14 -0700 (PDT)
Path: e10ni149329465qan.0!nntp.google.com!l8no20243557qao.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
Newsgroups: alt.fan.heinlein
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 09:50:13 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <HCc9s.29101$KB5.4666@fx24.am4>
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.166.185.207;
 posting-account=37P63AoAAADePx-_vd1F1pHQos44TV_T
NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.166.185.207
References: <df4b23f0-d649-4237-9829-5cca3026cf80@googlegroups.com> <HCc9s.29101$KB5.4666@fx24.am4>
User-Agent: G2/1.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID: <0a71c052-c5cf-4e67-a1fa-b834490934e6@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Deety's and Lewis Carroll's game of sorites in TNOTB - did
 Deety's 6 statements lead to "Gay Deceiver is a time-traveling machine"?
From: loupgarous <vfric...@forethought.net>
Injection-Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:50:14 +0000
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

On Friday, September 28, 2012 1:47:52 AM UTC-6, Simon Jester UK wrote:
> loupgarous wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> I'm open to any logical arguments I may have overlooked that Deety's 
> 
> statements don't lead to only one possible outcome, that being that Gay 
> 
> Deceiver is "a time-traveling machine."  Honestly, the only outcome one can 
> 
> arrive at from rigorous logical analysis of those six statements is a 
> 
> two-fold one:
> 
> 
> 
> (a) Time-traveling machines should not be kept in a drawing room;
> 
> (b) Things that are what you expect them to be may be kept in a drawing 
> 
> room.
> 
> 
> 
> Nothing in Deety's six statements seems to me to connect the two folds of 
> 
> the outcome as I've stated it.  I hope someone can show me where I went 
> 
> wrong on that analysis.
> 
> 
> 
> Vance P. Frickey
> 
> 
> 
> "I aim to misbehave."  Captain Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity"
> 
> 
> 
> ----
> 
> 
> 
> I don't believe you are wrong, Vance - do you remember the post/essay by 
> 
> "Gharlane of Eddore" on TNotB?

No, but thanks for the suggestion, and for responding, Simon.

I'm a little reassured that several years on what Gregory House, MD calls "those tasty Vicodin" for assorted pains and ills hasn't dulled my ability to parse logical statements :-)