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So true, and not just in English. One of the reasons I switched from being a German major in college was I got fed up with hearing the word grundsätzlich (meaning basically) at least 3 or 4 times a minute in discussion.
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Mav opined: I think this theory is based on incomplete information.
And you have enough solid information to back that statement up? I think not!
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I think not!Inverted boasting? - never mind, we're friends here 
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Descarte walked into an English pub, to be greeted by the bartender, who said to him, "Fancy a beer, guv?"
A wine drinker, Descarte pulled himself up to his full height and snarled, "I think NOT!" and promptly disappeared.
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TEd quoth Descarte walked into an English pub, to be greeted by the bartender, who said to him, "Fancy a beer, guv?"
A wine drinker, Descarte pulled himself up to his full height and snarled, "I think NOT!" and promptly disappeared.Preeeeeeeeeecisely! That joke was told to me many moons ago and I loved it so much I adopted the "I think NOT!" as a conscious affectation. TEd is the first person who has ever come up with the source.  And, from "The Philosophers Song", "Descartes, Descartes was a boozy old fart/but not as sloshed as Schlagel!"
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"I think NOT!" and promptly disappeared.
This is funny but it also demonstrates the fallacy of denying the antecedent.
http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/deny.htm
It's still funny.
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"I think NOT!" and promptly disappeared.
This is funny but it also demonstrates the fallacy of denying the antecedent.
http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/deny.htm
I have a headache!
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The Philosophers Song
The verse I learned was, "Great Empedocles, to prove his soul, jumped into Aetna and was roasted whole."
And apropos of the barber paradox, seems to me that after all that heavy discussion, we could make very profitable use of Occam's razor.
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Thanks for the reference, tsuwm. There were several versions of this song sung by MP on tour. This doesn't mean that I'm saying my quote was correct, though. The best one was at a concert in LA. Idle was clearly right off his face on something very, very nice, because he went right through the show with a stupid smile on his face.
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