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#134356 10/26/04 12:39 PM
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fascicles

cool. very facile.

so, how do this and icicle (or popsicle!) relate? fascis = bundle, but? I don't think of icicles as being bundles.



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so what is the term for [this] logical fallacy?

In French they say, "Qui s'excuse, s'accuse", Of Troy.

But, actually, I wasn't thinking of all Carpals, and certainly I was not thinking of you.

Shall I give you another clue?






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how do this and icicle (or popsicle!) relate?

The second c in icicle isn't there in the OE word that icicle derives from: gicel. Probably from a folk etymology based on ice.

Fascicle (or fascicule) is from Latin fasciculus. -culus (like German -chen and -lein) is really two diminutive suffixes in a row: the -cV and the -lV. Fascis (origin of the word fascist) is indead a bundle. You can see a fascis on the back of the old Mercury dime. It was a bundle of sticks around an axe. The axe was a ceremonial weapon (kind of like a mace) that Roman lictores carried. Different magistrates had the right to have different numbers of lictores carry fasces around and protect their person (and office, I suppose).


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Shall I give you another clue?

OK, so here's the clue:

How many "falicies" do we know around here?










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Given the statement......If A, then B.
The converse is..........If B, then A.
The inverse is...........If not A, then not B.
The contrapositive is....If not B, then not A.

Goldenrod is, of course, right. I was jumping ahead of myself when I spoke of the logical contrapositive. I give you full credit for your answer, wofa.


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Just the pathetic ones???



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Or the ones with testicles attached? Though those two categories may not be mutually exclusive, you unnerstand.



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Given the statement......If A, then B.
The converse is..........If B, then A.
The inverse is...........If not A, then not B.
The contrapositive is....If not B, then not A.


Correct me if I'm wrong on the line of thinking here but the logic above seems to be a bit flawed.

If A then B.

"If I have a beard then I am a man" True (presuming that we excluding non-humans

If B then A.

"If I am a man then I have a beard" Not necessarily true

If Not A then Not B

"If I am not man then I don't have a beard" - True (in the strictest sense of the word)

If Not B then Not A

"If I don't have a beard then I am not a man" - definitely not true

Okay, the definitions of the words are correct. I just have a problem with the faulty logic.


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Edit: Sorry I seem to have posted the above twice!

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Okay, the definitions of the words are correct. I just have a problem with the faulty logic.

As I understand it, and correct me if I'm wrong, but these terms are just the names for each of the four logical statements, and have nothing at all to say about the verity of the statements.


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