Are you a Logician?
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I prefer to borrow Douglas Adams' term, "other professional thinking persons".
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W∴ Balboos wrote:
E.g: suppose said sign was in a village which had no on-street parking, except on Sundays. This is only adding to the rules for that particular street, excluding Sunday, as well. Q.E.D.
In which case, the sign would say "No parking at any time". Putting up a sign saying "No parking on Sundays" - without also adding "in addition to the existing parking prohibition covering all other days of the week" - would just cause confusion. :) If there is no sign, then the ambient rules apply. If there is a sign, then the rules on the sign are the rules that apply. If the sign says "No parking on Sundays", then that is the only restriction that applies.
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Richard Deeming wrote:
In which case, the sign would say "No parking at any time".
Only because you want that to be used. There is, again, a leap of faith that such wording would be used. That wording, however, may be used where needed by expanding the little hamlet's rules: No parking anywhere, except on Sunday, except holidays in shopping districts. There can be any number of rules that are not taken into account by your initial sign. It's only information is "No Parking Sunday" - Everything which is not forbidden is allowed - Wikipedia[^] - but here's "The Rule" one could compose for this, a corollary, if you will. You need to know, unambiguously, what is forbidden. Incomplete information is not an excuse to modify reality to fit one's limited perception of the situation.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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Gerry Schmitz wrote:
If you tell them you're a "programmer", or even a "developer", they start telling you your job.
My experience is that they start telling me about a programming course they took in college when vacuum tubes were still in vogue. Technically, everyone is a programmer, even an engineer. We do social engineering on each other every day without even realizing it. This post is social engineering. > “A person who is skilled in logic.” I actually rarely encounter programmers that are actually skilled in logic. > "a person who is, by their very nature, highly methodical, cerebral, and fact-oriented." :laugh: Where? > Having to constantly cater to highly emotional people. Wait. I resemble that remark. I guess I'm too emotional to call myself a logician. :sigh:
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I just wanted to know "why" I had to this or that. Never got an answer from this particular outfit. I thought perhaps it was my problem. It was. I think they call it "insubordination". Or failure to submit.
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