All cats have three tails
August 09th, 2011 by Bertie
Proof:
One cat has one more tail than no cat.
No cat has two tails.
Therefore, one cat has three tails.
Quod erat demonstrandum
Jolly clever, what?
Proof:
One cat has one more tail than no cat.
No cat has two tails.
Therefore, one cat has three tails.
Quod erat demonstrandum
Jolly clever, what?
madera verde
August 10, 2011
So if you take one cat with one tail and add the no cat with two tails to it you end up with one cat who must have three tails.
Sir, I think you are abusing the english language.
Jeeves
August 10, 2011
Sir, I have had the honor of receiving a communication from Lady Worplesdon on the telephone. Madam directs me to convey her wish that you cease this infantile piffle immediately. The expression is hers, sir.
Bertie W.
August 10, 2011
But Jeeves, dash it, the thing is some kind of logic thingy. Very improving for the mind, I dare say, and the Wooster fiancee spent last evening in loving conference with self explaining it to me until I got it. Dashed domestic, what? Well-nigh connubial. How the blasted Aunt Agatha, blast her, can kick at these scenes of settled bliss is more than I can explain.
Zen
August 11, 2011
Reminds me of DeMorgan’s paradox where in a few lines of algebra clearly prove that 1=0. And in some contexts, this is tremendously useful.