Knowing you failed a test

[Sue Bitch]

And yes I did study.
I hate philosiphy. Who would have thought it would be all fromulas and turning sentences into equations.
Well atleast I believe half the class failed cause most of us were still their when the hour and 1/2 was up. First time to that I have ever had to stay the entire time for the test. Yet i did so well on the first exam too, there goes my average :(

[Grapes]

I once walked out on a test, and basically an entire course.

Looking at the exam I just had this moment... "Whoa. I don't have a fucking clue.".. *flips pages*.. "Nope I don't have a clue about any of this either"... OK I'm outta here.

BIG FAT F.

[mapleleaf4ever]

^ Ouch...


Sue, that sucks... I wouldn't have thought Philosophy was formulas either.

[filipmaj]

i took a logic philosophy course last semester... it was all like predicate and sentential logic and stuff, it was basically like a branch of mathematics. is that what youre taking?

[Sue Bitch]

^^ eactly what I am takin
I memorized all the formulas the questions were just way over our heads

[Bobby_T]

This is my favorite subject. Logic is so much fun.

[decypher]

you taking critical thinking?

so am i, its all deductive logic and all that crap.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by BoBBy_T

This is my favorite subject. Logic is so much fun.

Discrete Math > Critical Thinking.

That is all.

[Bobby_T]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

Discrete Math > Critical Thinking.

That is all.

I know, I've taken both. But really, when you formalise the system of L they almost merge into one. This happens in second year Natural Deductive logic. Luckily I had taken Discrete Math first so it was like review, heh.

[Flip]

Logic? Easy. For example: Safeway sells douche-bags in aisle 6; Suebitch IS a douche-bag; therefore logic states that you can buy Suebitch in aisle 6 at Safeway.

That's easy:)

[Sue Bitch]

turn that into a formulas douche-bag

[Bobby_T]

Originally Posted by Flip

Logic? Easy. For example: Safeway sells douche-bags in aisle 6; Suebitch IS a douche-bag; therefore logic states that you can buy Suebitch in aisle 6 at Safeway.

That's easy:)

WAY TO GO !!! you just proved how much you can talk out of your ass. You just produced the most common FALLACY known to man.

If you are a dog then you hate cats. My grandma hates cats. BY YOUR LOGIC, my grandma is a dog?

hahhhaa nice try.

[diva]

I took that course at ubc a few years ago.

[Flip]

/\OK let's try another example: acording to his avatar, BobbyT wears big sunglasses; Sunglasses cause Gonorhea; therefore BobbyT has Gonorhea. Now that's logic!

[~god~]

Originally Posted by Sue Bitch

And yes I did study.
I hate philosiphy. Who would have thought it would be all fromulas and turning sentences into equations.
Well atleast I believe half the class failed cause most of us were still their when the hour and 1/2 was up. First time to that I have ever had to stay the entire time for the test. Yet i did so well on the first exam too, there goes my average :(

logic and reason is the easiest course!! Im actually enjoying it.

but shit happens. don't let it get you down. there are always other tests ;)

[~god~]

Originally Posted by decypher

you taking critical thinking?

so am i, its all deductive logic and all that crap.

who's your teacher?

[FireWire]

Knowing I failed my math tests in high school, more than once per semester... was never a surprise to me, lol.

No matter how hard I studied, I always found the actual tests to be way harder than the usual material that we covered in class.

So I was at least happy that I DID try and tried my best on the test, regardless of the fail.

[MarcelM]

I fucking hate philosophy, too
Some people said smart things, but fuck, who cares about the shit sokrates, plato or aristoteles said more than 2000 years ago...
I studied all of them, and it would have been way more interesting studying engels, wittgenstein, or freud....

And it takes me a long time until I get the concept of those ideas ( it took me forever to understand kant..... )

[trance4life]

a>b
b>c
therefore
a>c

eww i hate it`

[Sue Bitch]

I am just lucky that since we have only 4 tests this semester our best 3 are worth 30% when our wosre is worth 10%. I am just scared that this might happen with my next test


and this has nothing to do with sokrates, plato or aristoteles

and mark that fromula there is called Hypothedical Syllogism I understand the basic 8 rules but it is the 10 equivalence rules that i cant get my head to completly wrap around, but i find turning the fromulas into # help a bit to remember, but not much

[Bobby_T]

^^^

The reason you can't get the equivalence rules is because you probably don't know why they are equivalent.

The reason they are equivalent is because when using a 2 value truth system each row in their truth tables are the same.

You need to learn how the connectives ( and, or, material implication, negation) take 2 truth values as inputs and act as function determining a single output truth value for the formula.

This maybe a little over your head but ask your teacher what truth tables are and how to use them.

If you master the use of truth tables you will have an INDEPENDANT standard to check whether two formulas are equivalent or not.

Once you know this you literally can't get anything wrong.