LOGIC

COMMENTARY ARCHIVES, 3 Jan 2010

Dietrich Fischer

    A boy from a village went to study at the university in the nearest town.  One day he returned home, and one of his childhood friends asked him, "What are you studying?"  He said, "I am studying logic."  His friend asked, "Logic, what’s that?"  He said, "I will explain it to you.  Do you have a dog?"  "Yes, I do."  "Then you must have more animals."  "Yes, I have some cows."  "Then you must own land."  "Yes, I have a couple of acres."  "Then you must be a wealthy man."  "I am quite well-off."  "Then you must be a pious man who deserves all this."  "I do pray regularly."  "Then your mother must have raised you this way.  She must be a very faithful, good woman."  "Indeed she is."  "You see, that is what you can do with logical deduction."  "I am very impressed." — The next day, the boy from the village met his other friend, who asked him, "I heard that yesterday you met our friend who went to study in the town.  Tell me, what is he studying?"  "He is studying logic."  "Logic, what’s that?"  "I will explain it to you.  Do you have a dog?"  "No."  "Then your mother must be a bad woman."

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Marilyn Monroe said to Bertrand Russell that she wished to have a baby from him, saying, "Imagine how marvelous, your wits and my beauty."  Russell gently declined and said, "but what if it has your wits and my beauty?"

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