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<<t is of course a silly idea, I mean, a typewriter? Now really, how 20th century! Just give them Word 2000 with the built-in proofing tools and just see what they can do! I meen eye all ways use my spell chequer and it works four me.>>
Those thousand monkeys will never do it. Their strokes aren't random, so they won't generate Shakespear out of randomness. However, they'll do that a lot quicker on computers, and with more revisons and more trees felled.
Incidentally, have you ever fed a poem through a grammar checker? Make sure you save a copy of the original.
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seems to be of the form
All A are B
C is not D
Therefore, E is not A
Does this make sense?
No. Even though the minor premise is itselt a false syllogism, I only see three terms there.
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As has been said, the truth of a syllogism is not empirical and has only to do with the truth values of its arguments, as defined. It is purely logical and, as such, makes no reference to the "real" world. In addition, there is no logical structure to the world, there are verifiable phenomena.
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As terrified as I was of coming back here, I stand by my original syllogism.
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Oh dear, we seem to be begging the question again! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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OK, he exists, I just can't figure out how to get to the site and still have time to do something besides waiting for it to load. I had never heard of O'sullivan.
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On second thought, I could read War and Peace while I'm waiting.
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The island, the rock maintains: I stand by my original syllogism
Well, I guess that's OK then, inselpeter. As long as you stand over there by your original syllogism (sic) I needn't fear tripping over you in the dark.
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jd questions: Gilbert O'sullivan? They were 2 people and Sullivan wasn't Irish.
Now talk about your three signs of old age! When somebody you were old enough to be curmudgeonly about is before someone's time...
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Never have I been so grateful for remembering the other one. I can''t remember what *was his greatest (sic) hit!
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F-Age - My hint came with cattle prod attached!!!  
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Sullivan wasn't Irish.
Sure, Lad, and if his name was Sullivan there is an Irish patriarch in the line who bestowed the name! ... deny it tho he might Sullivan had Irish bloodlines.
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