{"id":252,"date":"2008-06-14T13:29:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T13:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/2008\/06\/14\/ToMyEsteemedScategoriesCohorts.aspx"},"modified":"2008-06-14T13:29:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-14T13:29:16","slug":"to-my-esteemed-scategories-cohorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"To my esteemed scategories cohorts&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>I want to formally write a complaint that you guys are intentionally stealing points from me when we play scategories. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Take for example; last night.  There was a question that asked us to name something that was in the refrigerator that starts with an N.  My answer was &#8220;nothing&#8221;.  <\/P><br \/>\n<P>You, my esteemed scategories cohorts refused to accept this answer on the case that you felt that nothing was not something.  <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Try as I might to help you see the error of your ways by asking you to describe nothing without giving it attributes or qualities which are both <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Necessary_and_sufficient_conditions\">necessary and sufficient condition<\/A> for the being of somethingness, you could only describe nothing by describing something &#8211; thus proving my point &#8211; and yet, not gaining me points.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I therefore post these three forms of <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Propositional_logic\">Propositional Logic<\/A> to affirm the truth of my statement that nothing is really something, and demand a recount of my points! \ud83d\ude42<\/P><br \/>\n<P><A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modus_tollendo_ponens\">Disjunctive Syllogism<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Either Nothing is Nothing or Nothing is Something<BR>Nothing is not nothing<BR>Therefore Nothing is Something<\/P><br \/>\n<P><BR><A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hypothetical_syllogism\">Hypothetical Syllogism<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P>If I can describe an object called nothing, then the object called nothing has attributes and qualities<BR>If the object called nothing has attributes and qualities then it must exist as something<BR>I can describe the object called nothing therefore it must exist as something<\/P><br \/>\n<P><A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modus_Ponens\">Modus Ponens<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P>If an object called nothing has descriptive qualities then the object must exist <BR>The object called nothing has descriptive qualities<BR>Therefore the object called nothing exists <\/P><br \/>\n<P>If an object exists then it can be included in a set called something<BR>The object called nothing exists <BR>Therefore the object called nothing can be included in a set called something<BR> <\/P><br \/>\n<P> <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to formally write a complaint that you guys are intentionally stealing points from me when we play scategories. Take for example; last night. There was a question that asked us to name something that was in the refrigerator that starts with an N. My answer was &#8220;nothing&#8221;. You, my esteemed scategories cohorts refused &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To my esteemed scategories cohorts&#8230;.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-friends","category-humor","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}