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Tue 2008-01-15 10:48
Symbolic logic stickers
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[identity profile] pseudomonas.livejournal.comTue 2008-01-15 11:08
In a slightly less specific vein (http://biphenyl.org/blog/2008/01/01/citation-needed/)...
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[personal profile] gerald_duckTue 2008-01-15 11:42
I'm still waiting for this to happen at a real political rally.

(\rho_{A,B} > 0) \nRightarrow (A \Rightarrow B)

…might also bear using on a sticker.

Putting a whole bunch of them on a t-shirt could work, too!
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[personal profile] simontTue 2008-01-15 12:15
Hmm. I did go through a website full of logical fallacies looking for ones which could be snappily rendered into symbolic logic. I considered "correlation does not imply causation" but discarded it on the basis that I couldn't think of a snappy way to describe causation. I'm not entirely convinced by your answer; implication, after all, also does not imply causation. Smoke implies fire (yes yes, except where it doesn't), but smoke doesn't cause fire!
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