common sense for me, thanks!
Oct. 21st, 2008 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pauraque_bkI was at the bookstore trying to conlang, and at the table next to me was a woman being tutored in formal logic. It was pretty impossible not to hear their conversation. Apparently this is something you have to do to get into law school. What I got out of it was mostly that formal logic is REALLY stupid. I guess my dream of going to law school is shot.
I'm sure people who know about formal logic will find this laughable, but this is what their conversation sounded like to me:
student: [reading from textbook] "The continents all used to be one mass."
tutor: "So why did the continents used to be one mass?"
"It doesn't say why."
"Yes it does. It says the continents used to be one mass."
"That isn't why."
"Yes it is."
"Hang on, I'm trying to think about this logically." (I'm sure she meant she was trying to think of it SENSIBLY which is why she wasn't getting the answer in the book.)
ET CETERA
While they were talking she also kept taking more and more food and drinks out of her bag and putting them all over the small cafe table, until the tutor was like "...you seriously have to put some of this away." She was all, "No, no, I need it!"
She wanted to mix up some protein powder in water and drink it. The tutor said there were plastic cups, but she refused to use them because apparently drinking out of plastic cups causes endocrine disorders. She knew this because she was a nutritionist. She wanted to put the powder in her giant bottle of water (plastic bottles are okay?), but the tutor found this objectionable because he thought she would never be able to drink it all. Eventually he won and convinced her to drink it out of the plastic cup, but it took like 20 minutes.
The experience was enhanced by the tutor looking and acting like a younger version of Michael Kors.
I'm sure people who know about formal logic will find this laughable, but this is what their conversation sounded like to me:
student: [reading from textbook] "The continents all used to be one mass."
tutor: "So why did the continents used to be one mass?"
"It doesn't say why."
"Yes it does. It says the continents used to be one mass."
"That isn't why."
"Yes it is."
"Hang on, I'm trying to think about this logically." (I'm sure she meant she was trying to think of it SENSIBLY which is why she wasn't getting the answer in the book.)
ET CETERA
While they were talking she also kept taking more and more food and drinks out of her bag and putting them all over the small cafe table, until the tutor was like "...you seriously have to put some of this away." She was all, "No, no, I need it!"
She wanted to mix up some protein powder in water and drink it. The tutor said there were plastic cups, but she refused to use them because apparently drinking out of plastic cups causes endocrine disorders. She knew this because she was a nutritionist. She wanted to put the powder in her giant bottle of water (plastic bottles are okay?), but the tutor found this objectionable because he thought she would never be able to drink it all. Eventually he won and convinced her to drink it out of the plastic cup, but it took like 20 minutes.
The experience was enhanced by the tutor looking and acting like a younger version of Michael Kors.
