My thanks to Em for correcting my post below regarding city status in Britain. It seems that I have fallen into the trap of several fallacies.
For one I have committed a syllogistic error, that of the Illicit Major.
(If A then B. B, therefore A)
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For those of you who are grinding your teeth at the interminably slow pace at which I am posting the travelogue: apologies.
I want to post the pictures concurrently with the relevant posts, and it is taking a fair bit of selection, editing and manipulation, plus belated research to label them correctly.
I will be posting the entire travelogue, but it will take its own sweet time, during which there will be normal (more or less) regular blog service to fill in the gaps.
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I have altered the Categories template so that the posts now appear in chronological order, i.e. first post at the top. I've done this mainly with the travelogue in mind, in the event that anyone wishes to read it in a logical fashion.
And now there is an Asparagus and Brie with Fresh Goat Cheese Crustless Quiche waiting to be made, and consumed. If it works out well (I've made it up on the spur of the moment) I might post a pseudo-recipe, if anyone is interested.
For one I have committed a syllogistic error, that of the Illicit Major.
"Some settlements with diocesan cathedrals are cities, therefore all settlements with diocesan cathedrals are cities."Another is the Non Sequitur, specifically Affirming the Consequent:
(If A then B. B, therefore A)
"A settlement with a diocesan cathedral is a city. X is a city, therefore X must have a diocesan cathedral."To round out the error of my ways, I will now commit a third, that of Changing the Subject: Anonymous Authority, by saying that my statement was based on things I've read in several places, none of which I can presently identify.
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For those of you who are grinding your teeth at the interminably slow pace at which I am posting the travelogue: apologies.
I want to post the pictures concurrently with the relevant posts, and it is taking a fair bit of selection, editing and manipulation, plus belated research to label them correctly.
I will be posting the entire travelogue, but it will take its own sweet time, during which there will be normal (more or less) regular blog service to fill in the gaps.
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I have altered the Categories template so that the posts now appear in chronological order, i.e. first post at the top. I've done this mainly with the travelogue in mind, in the event that anyone wishes to read it in a logical fashion.
And now there is an Asparagus and Brie with Fresh Goat Cheese Crustless Quiche waiting to be made, and consumed. If it works out well (I've made it up on the spur of the moment) I might post a pseudo-recipe, if anyone is interested.
Comments (7)
no no no.
tyhe british way is to 'slap' Em ;-) and carry on regardless.
Posted by briggy | January 26, 2005 1:01 AM
Posted on January 26, 2005 01:01
One thing I enjoyed about my university days was studying logical fallacies. I used to spot them everywhere. This did not endear me to members of the opposite sex, as my newfound hobby quickly grew tiresome. "Ah, but Leslie, your suggestion that I perceived my former girlfriend as prettier than you, simply because I dated her first, is a mere 'post hoc, ergo propter hoc' volley; therefore I need not address your argument."
Posted by Chrysalis | January 26, 2005 10:07 AM
Posted on January 26, 2005 10:07
Ouch!
Thanks, Briggs. And to this I was helping you with your mobly stuff ...
Please do post the recipe, Sivani - it sounds scrummy.
Posted by Em² | January 26, 2005 10:32 AM
Posted on January 26, 2005 10:32
*this*? I meant "think", of course. That blow to the head must have damaged my brian.
Posted by Em² | January 26, 2005 10:32 AM
Posted on January 26, 2005 10:32
i'm sorry Em. but she needs to be told these things if we're gonna britify her.
she packs a punch tho!
Posted by briggy | January 27, 2005 3:03 AM
Posted on January 27, 2005 03:03
Briggy - I thought that in Britain when someone steps on your toe for example, YOU apologize. So common was this practice I thought, that whenever you apologize, everyone immediately assumes the OTHER guy is at fault.
(Unlike the US where an apology is an admission to guilt and an invitation to a lawsuit.)
Em - of course I don't mean anything by any of this. I'm sorry.
Chrys - you should have run with her fallacy, but turned it around: "No darling, the fact that I dated you after her means that you are prettier - otherwise I would still be with her."
Of course this only works as long as she doesn't know that the earlier girlfriend dumped you, instead of the other way around :-)
Blogging has made me realize how many of the jokes I know are just ever so slightly off-color. Just enough that I wouldn't want to post them in public, or at least not at this blog.
Posted by Sivani | January 27, 2005 9:15 AM
Posted on January 27, 2005 09:15
ur best just to forget about that sivani and make em anyway.
humour should know few bounds.
ur right tho of course. we are a nation of apolgists.
... but when we get home we write 'stiff' letters to the newspapers complaining and dreaming we'd shouted back rather than apologising.
its a healthy way to live one's life.
Posted by briggy | January 27, 2005 12:28 PM
Posted on January 27, 2005 12:28