tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8294304458677955232.post7866035138717119942..comments2023-10-23T17:44:39.517-07:00Comments on Paratus Familia Blog: Circular reasoningEnola Gayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12719123975236426938noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8294304458677955232.post-86831452821787084462011-03-20T12:22:17.464-07:002011-03-20T12:22:17.464-07:00Cute, but slavish traditionalism is not circular r...Cute, but slavish traditionalism is not circular reasoning. Neither are definitions, mathematical or otherwise. Here's a pretty simple explanation of circular reasoning: http://bit.ly/6fpGVSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8294304458677955232.post-59469364528409048222011-03-20T03:10:22.055-07:002011-03-20T03:10:22.055-07:00When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch...When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory at Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably one of the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass. ...and you thought being a HORSE'S ASS wasn't important!.<br /><br />Actually all of this is urban myth, but fun.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8294304458677955232.post-47975300032712706822011-03-18T18:05:20.736-07:002011-03-18T18:05:20.736-07:00whether you are right or wrong, it makes sense and...whether you are right or wrong, it makes sense and is a good story anyway. there are many things that could also be applied to the theory here. the "because we have always done it this way" is the major reason so many little bitty american towns and cities are fixing to dry up and blow away...new ideas to age old questions are not welcome. sad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8294304458677955232.post-87245195544937751912011-03-18T09:20:02.938-07:002011-03-18T09:20:02.938-07:00A lot of reasons to doubt that one.
For one, the ...A lot of reasons to doubt that one.<br /><br />For one, the Romans did not make much use of chariots during the time they were doing there road building. It probably has more to do with the size of the peasent (supply carts, and what they found worked best for them.<br /><br />This person has additional details:<br /><br />http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asprussell1200https://www.blogger.com/profile/16258915475311426433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8294304458677955232.post-53748473367476226372011-03-18T07:42:40.135-07:002011-03-18T07:42:40.135-07:00The very foundations of our daily lives are based ...The very foundations of our daily lives are based on these circular reasoning's.<br /> <br />It begs the importance of stopping and questioning the "Why" and "How" do we get this way to the present? we need not to accept ALL things just presented to us...as a society.<br /><br />First, comes an acceptable used standard in society.<br />Then citizens follow that standard.<br />Then history of that standard becomes a redundancy for successive societies.<br /><br />Here is another example of an acceptable standard, and the rest is history in conceptual reasoning.<br /><br />PROPERTIES of MATHMATICS<br /><br />a,b,c = any real number * = multiply / = divide + = add<br /><br />Commutative Property of Addition a + b = b + a<br /><br />Commutative Prop. of Multiplication a * b = b * a<br /><br />Associative Prop. of Addition a + (b + c) = (a + b) + c<br /><br />Associative Prop. of Mult. a * (b * c) = (a * b) * c<br /><br />Distributive Prop. of Mult. over Add. a* (b + c) = a*b + a*c<br /><br />Dist. Prop. of Mult. over Subtraction a * (b - c) = a*b - a*c<br /><br />Additive Identity Prop. a + 0 = a and 0 + a = a<br /><br />Multiplicative Identity Prop. a * 1 = a and 1 * a = a<br /><br />Additive Inverse Prop. a + (-a) = 0<br /><br />Multiplicative Inverse Prop. a * (1/a) = 1<br /><br />Multiplicative Prop. of (-1) a * (-1) = -a<br /><br />Reflexive Prop. of Equality a = a<br /><br />Symmetrical Prop. of Equal. a = b then b = a<br /><br />Transitive Prop. of Equal. If a = b and b = c, then a = c<br /><br />Substitution Property If a = b,then b can replace a in any equation.<br /><br />Definition of Subtraction a - b = a + (-b)<br /><br />Definition of Division 0 / a = 0, a / a = 1, a / 0 = undefined<br /><br /><br />notutopiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8294304458677955232.post-81751158218531916612011-03-18T07:28:35.697-07:002011-03-18T07:28:35.697-07:00Now that's like an article I read where a man ...Now that's like an article I read where a man was wondering why his wife cut off the ends of the ham when she baked it. She told him that's because her mother always did it that way. He asked his mother in law why she cut the ends of the ham off and she said it was because her mother always did it that way. When he asked HER mother why she cut the ends off of the ham before cutting it, SHE said it was because her pan was too small. =\Vickihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00622338474989335764noreply@blogger.com