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A: “It’s utter ridiculous that the likes of Messieurs Pasteur and Semmelweis suggest our hands are unclean with those so called germs! We are gentlemen, gentlem
by mint2 4y ago
A: “It’s utter ridiculous that the likes of Messieurs Pasteur and Semmelweis suggest our hands are unclean with those so called germs! We are gentlemen, gentlemen’s hands are clean!”
B: “Well, I think he has a point about surgeons washing their hands and they’re definitely gentleman?”
A: “Ah but that is the exception that proves the rule! Therefore Gentleman’s hands are clean! Well that’s that, the argument is shut down”
B:”but that’s not how the “the exception that proves to rule” works, that’s actually ..”
A: <interrupts> “vox populi, vox dei!. I shall now embark on an hour long treatise on gentlemanly learnedness!”
Scene cuts to reveals it was a Monty python sketch.
- pnf 4y agoArgumentum ad Pythonis! Clearly, the only way to resolve this is with a deep dive into type theory and the demarcation problem. In lieu of that, I'm happy to cede the last word to the wags in the cheeseshop.