Some Things I've Been Up To (Whether You Care to Know or Not)

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Cuddlefish

February 25, 2014, 02:24:49 AM
During my short time T.A.-ing for my logic prof., I have reformatted the square of opposition (a diagram designed to point out the immediate inferences of any logical statement, created by Aristotle and not updated since the 19th century) to require the memorization of fewer rules and to be more intuitive to new students of logic. In one day I have been able to take four students who absolutely BOMBED the quiz, and, through the use of my modified square of opposition (which I'm now calling 'The Dimo Calculator'), I was able to teach each student how to make immediate inferences without confusion, with a 100% success rate. This was achieved in no more than a half-hour per student (compare this to the many hours spent by the prof. with little to no results). I cannot stop thinking about it.
A fisher of men, or a manner of fish?

The Good Reverend Roger

#1
February 25, 2014, 02:25:21 AM
1.  RAH!

2.  Do we know you?
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Cuddlefish

#2
February 25, 2014, 02:34:01 AM
1. Indeed
2. You used to, my bad.
A fisher of men, or a manner of fish?

The Good Reverend Roger

#3
February 25, 2014, 02:38:21 AM
Quote from: Cuddlefish on February 25, 2014, 02:34:01 AM
1. Indeed
2. You used to, my bad.

:lulz:

Welcome back, spag.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cuddlefish

#4
February 25, 2014, 02:42:34 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 25, 2014, 02:38:21 AM
Quote from: Cuddlefish on February 25, 2014, 02:34:01 AM
1. Indeed
2. You used to, my bad.

:lulz:

Welcome back, spag.

To be fair, I never left in spirit.

Continuing in fairness, 'here in spirit' is pretty fuckin' useless. So, again, my bad.

But, as always, thanks for havin' me.
A fisher of men, or a manner of fish?

LMNO

#5
February 25, 2014, 02:59:52 AM
Please to present this new square to the group, please and thank you.

Pæs

#6
February 25, 2014, 03:02:56 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 25, 2014, 02:59:52 AM
Please to present this new square to the group, please and thank you.
THIS.

Cuddlefish

#7
February 25, 2014, 03:51:33 AM
Well, I could explain it better in person, and I could draw it better by hand, but if you want to give me a bit, I can write something up on how it works and somehow come up with a graphic. Mind you, if this really is as cool as I think it may be, it's senior thesis material, and I'd rather be a little tight-lipped about it while I'm working on it.

But, I will tell you this: the old square over-simplifies everything. By abstracting out a second square (one for T statements only, and one for F statements only) you have no parts of the diagram doing double duty (True A statements go in the same place as False ones, etc., in the old diagram, which in many cases, leads to confusion regarding certain types of inferences). Further, if you stack the two squares in such a way, it highlights a third zone which automatically tells you which statements produce unknown inferences, thus eliminating the need to remember the rules of contraries, and allowing you to replace the rules of alteration/sub-alteration with a simpler rule, which gives you a total of only two rules, one universal to all instances on the diagram, and one conditional dependent on the zone in which you begin inferring.
A fisher of men, or a manner of fish?

Nephew Twiddleton

#8
February 25, 2014, 03:58:03 AM
Dude, I was thinking about you earlier. Good to see you!
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Cuddlefish

#9
February 25, 2014, 04:31:29 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on February 25, 2014, 03:58:03 AM
Dude, I was thinking about you earlier. Good to see you!

yessir. when we meatup, yo?

U2, LMNO. Meatup.
A fisher of men, or a manner of fish?

Nephew Twiddleton

#10
February 25, 2014, 04:55:44 AM
Quote from: Cuddlefish on February 25, 2014, 04:31:29 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on February 25, 2014, 03:58:03 AM
Dude, I was thinking about you earlier. Good to see you!

yessir. when we meatup, yo?

U2, LMNO. Meatup.

I've got 3 Biology related and 1 Math related class this semester. I have Spring Break the week of March 17. Note however, that Villager's birthday is the 21st.
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Sentence or sentence fragment pending

Soy El Vaquero Peludo de Oro

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East Coast Hustle

#11
February 25, 2014, 07:09:49 AM
Quote from: Cuddlefish on February 25, 2014, 03:51:33 AM
Well, I could explain it better in person, and I could draw it better by hand, but if you want to give me a bit, I can write something up on how it works and somehow come up with a graphic. Mind you, if this really is as cool as I think it may be, it's senior thesis material, and I'd rather be a little tight-lipped about it while I'm working on it.

But, I will tell you this: the old square over-simplifies everything. By abstracting out a second square (one for T statements only, and one for F statements only) you have no parts of the diagram doing double duty (True A statements go in the same place as False ones, etc., in the old diagram, which in many cases, leads to confusion regarding certain types of inferences). Further, if you stack the two squares in such a way, it highlights a third zone which automatically tells you which statements produce unknown inferences, thus eliminating the need to remember the rules of contraries, and allowing you to replace the rules of alteration/sub-alteration with a simpler rule, which gives you a total of only two rules, one universal to all instances on the diagram, and one conditional dependent on the zone in which you begin inferring.

I think I sort of understand the gist of what you're saying, maybe. It sounds like the cliffs notes version is a simpler way to teach people how to use logic? That's wicked fucking cool.

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#12
February 25, 2014, 07:30:49 PM
Dimo!

Write that shit up. Seriously, write it up formally. Get your name on it.
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#13
February 25, 2014, 08:40:39 PM
Quote from: Nigel on February 25, 2014, 07:30:49 PM
Dimo!

Write that shit up. Seriously, write it up formally. Get your name on it.
Very much thisness.
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#14
February 25, 2014, 09:54:07 PM
Quote from: :regret: on February 25, 2014, 08:40:39 PM
Quote from: Nigel on February 25, 2014, 07:30:49 PM
Dimo!

Write that shit up. Seriously, write it up formally. Get your name on it.
Very much thisness.

And a third, because if nothing else I'd like to see it. Sounds excellent.
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