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Why not?
by hellofunk 9y ago
Why not?
- WalterBright 9y agoBecause the negation of 10% is 90%, not 10%.
- hellofunk 9y agoExcept that we are not talking about numbers, we are talking about human behavior. Applying a formula to that, as you are attempting to do, is not going to give you the conclusions you expect.
- marktangotango 9y agoFYI he's applying logical operations to sentences as logical propositions, which is valid and precise. Not hand wavey, and condescending like you are doing.
- hellofunk 9y agoLooks like all three of us are being a bit condescending here. Here is the actual logic: if people are not inherently bad at teaching, that means they are mostly effective at it, right? Were most of the teachers you've had in your life effective at teaching? Mine certainly were not. Perhaps you were having problems with the use of my word "nothing" instead of "mostly," which is just a colloquialism. Idioms of language rarely respond to logic in the way numbers do.
- marktangotango 9y agoIt's clear you are arguing for the sake of arguing and this community is worse for it.
- WalterBright 9y agoYou changed your wording from "highly effective" to "mostly effective". It's a crucial change, and so I infer you accepted my point :-)
- hellofunk 9y agoNo I didn't? It still says "highly."
- WalterBright 9y agoLook at your post I just replied to. It does not say "highly".
- hellofunk 9y agoI thought you meant I edited my original post that spawned your objections, which I haven't. I'll admit to being surprised at such a reaction over the choice of either of these words over the other. My meaning was clear in either case.
- jasonwelk 9y agoDon't be too surprised. Hackers tend to treat natural language like a programming language, unfortunately. Challenge them on it, and get ridiculed. Your point has been lost in all the nonsense, but I agree with it.
- marktangotango 9y agoNot just you're (derogatively named?) hackers but anyone who uses natural language for precise meaning; lawyers, mathematicians, philosophers. People who say what they mean, and mean what they say.
- jasonwelk 9y agoI don't perceive the tone you are projecting onto the OP, fwiw.