Post by jazzyjess on Mar 6, 2010 20:23:54 GMT 10
Title: 2. Disjunctive Syllogism
Rating: G
Length: 308
Competitor: Raoul
Round/Fight: 2/A
Summary: The application of disjunctive syllogism.
Note: You may blame my philosophy exam for the following series. In fact, please blame that exam with every atom of your existence, enough so that it will award me an A out of guilt. Thanks in advance.
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Lesson One: Disjunctive Syllogism. P or Q; not P, therefore Q.
I didn’t suspect at first, you know. Actually, I thought quite the opposite. There you were, sitting with us in the mess, pointing left and right and ordering us to eat our greens because if we didn’t, we would be of no use to anyone and then there would be no point in feeding us at all. Oh, don’t look so offended. You know very well how you behaved in those days. And really, you haven’t changed that much at all.
But I digress. You would shovel your food down as if it were your last meal and you wished to make the very most of it, and then you were hightailing it away from the mess as if you were excited to get to the inventory and paperwork. Perhaps if I’d dwelt on it a little longer, rather than accepting it just the way every other intimidated sod in camp had done, then I might have realised it sooner.
When finally I picked up on the trail you were so subtly leaving, I employed the use of the disjunctive syllogism. You were either exceptionally interested in assisting our clerks with the accounting, or you were sneaking somewhere without wanting to tell me that that was what you were doing. Why you feel like you need my approval for every act you engage in – well, not that I am complaining, per se, but really, you were a grown woman by then.
I hope that you will pardon my second digression. Judging by the amount of work Usa began with in the morning, and taking into account the fact that it was exactly the same amount of work as she’d been left with the previous evening, then you quite obviously were not doing the paperwork.
It logically follows that the only answer, then, was that you were sneaking out.
Rating: G
Length: 308
Competitor: Raoul
Round/Fight: 2/A
Summary: The application of disjunctive syllogism.
Note: You may blame my philosophy exam for the following series. In fact, please blame that exam with every atom of your existence, enough so that it will award me an A out of guilt. Thanks in advance.
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Lesson One: Disjunctive Syllogism. P or Q; not P, therefore Q.
I didn’t suspect at first, you know. Actually, I thought quite the opposite. There you were, sitting with us in the mess, pointing left and right and ordering us to eat our greens because if we didn’t, we would be of no use to anyone and then there would be no point in feeding us at all. Oh, don’t look so offended. You know very well how you behaved in those days. And really, you haven’t changed that much at all.
But I digress. You would shovel your food down as if it were your last meal and you wished to make the very most of it, and then you were hightailing it away from the mess as if you were excited to get to the inventory and paperwork. Perhaps if I’d dwelt on it a little longer, rather than accepting it just the way every other intimidated sod in camp had done, then I might have realised it sooner.
When finally I picked up on the trail you were so subtly leaving, I employed the use of the disjunctive syllogism. You were either exceptionally interested in assisting our clerks with the accounting, or you were sneaking somewhere without wanting to tell me that that was what you were doing. Why you feel like you need my approval for every act you engage in – well, not that I am complaining, per se, but really, you were a grown woman by then.
I hope that you will pardon my second digression. Judging by the amount of work Usa began with in the morning, and taking into account the fact that it was exactly the same amount of work as she’d been left with the previous evening, then you quite obviously were not doing the paperwork.
It logically follows that the only answer, then, was that you were sneaking out.
Maybe once we'd have seen it during Smackdown!