Is Logic The Same Thing As Common Sense?

[John Schmidt]

I really enjoyed this. Once you read it you'll understand why. 

1 - Eleven teens die each day because of texting while driving. Maybe it's time to raise the age of smart phone ownership to 21.
 
2 - If gun control laws actually worked, Chicago would be Mayberry, USA.
 
3 - The Second Amendment makes more women equal than the entire feminist movement.
 
4 - Legal gun owners have 300 million guns and probably a trillion rounds of ammo. Seriously, folks, if we were the problem, you'd know it.
 
5 - When JFK was killed, nobody blamed the rifle.
 
6 - The NRA murders 0 people and receives $0 in government funds. Planned Parenthood kills 350,000 babies every year and receives $500,000,000 in tax dollars annually.
 
7 - I have no problem with vigorous background checks when it comes to firearms. While we're at it, let's do the same when it comes to immigration, Voter I.D and candidates running for office.
 
8 - You don't need a smoke detector; that's what the fire department is for. Now...if you think that sounds stupid, you know how I feel when you say I don't need a gun.
 
9 - Folks keep talking about another Civil War. One side knows how to shoot and probably has a trillion bullets. The other side has crying closets and is confused about which bathroom to use. Now tell me, how do you think that's going to end?
 
Don’t be afraid to share this. There’s more logic and common sense expressed here than probably anything you’ve seen on the news today.

[old2soon]

              Gnarly old Retired Female Army Sargent I ride P G R with sent that too me couple weeks back. More Truth there than some will admit.  She just recently sent me something entitled-Gun Rules. Sorta tongue in cheek but mostly if not all True. One that stands out that I remember states-Do NOT fire warning shot(s)-that's a round(s) you may need soon. Thanks John. B T W up til this point in time Illinois Still Do NOT recognize my CCW from Missouri. dumb asses. RIDE SAFE.

[Patrick]

Well if sense was common everyone would have some.

[bassman]

Excellent !   

[Westernbiker]

I friggen love it!!!!!!! 

[DirtyDan]

 

Dan

[RainMaker]

[Pete]

Enjoyed the items you posted, thanks.

As for common sense - seems not so common anymore.
Logic? Way to many are logic challenged.

[The emperor has no clothes]

I have never heard of this fellow. So, I decided to look him up. Seems a pretty intelligent man. I liked most of his quotes, this one especially ;

"Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them."

[Skinhead]

I have never heard of this fellow. So, I decided to look him up. Seems a pretty intelligent man. I liked most of his quotes, this one especially ;

"Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them."

That's a good post Meat!  We all value your opinion.  (see what I did there?)

[solo1]

Very good post!  I think that we've learned one thing lately.  Democrats, and others, including the media, aren't interested in reducing crime by gun, they want guns gone from the people.

Probably a misquote by Mao Se Tung,(sp) "Power comes from the end of a gun barrel." 

[MarkT]

Good post & comments.

BTW I had a Logic class at UWP from a professor I especially respected.  (Those are rare with their politics.)  There's a lot more to it than I realized. It's also useful in electronics and systems analysis / computer logic for programming.  Particularly, there are symbols that represent logic concepts, and algebra - style calculations you can do with them to prove or disprove statements you want to check if they are valid. It's called "boolean algebra" or "propositional logic".  You can compute if a theory/concept is valid before you go to the trouble to write the code, compile it into a computer and discover it's flawed. Interesting stuff.

You could take the liberal's "commonsense" statements, run them through boolean algebra and prove METHODICALLY they are FALSE.

From wikipedia:

Boolean algebra was introduced by George Boole in his first book The Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847), and set forth more fully in his An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854).[1] According to Huntington, the term "Boolean algebra" was first suggested by Sheffer in 1913,[2] although Charles Sanders Peirce in 1880 gave the title "A Boolian Algebra with One Constant" to the first chapter of his "The Simplest Mathematics".[3] Boolean algebra has been fundamental in the development of digital electronics, and is provided for in all modern programming languages. It is also used in set theory and statistics.[4]

Here's a couple links -

http://electronics-course.com/boolean-algebra

Good abridged introduction of this and "switching algebra" - applying computational logic to "logic gates" to implement logic in computer circuits.  This is a whole field of study I dipped into in my Applied Computer Science major.  If you read the whole article you will have a good introduction to the field - and you must be a geek.  It's enough to make anyone else's head spin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_algebra

https://sourceforge.net/projects/logiccalculator/

[John Schmidt]

Mark, I had to study Boolean algebra in the USAF while going through missile school. Found it interesting, somewhat confusing at first but actually made sense to me. Sadly, as with my years of higher math, I've forgotten most of the Boolean concepts. I'm still able to work with basic algebra but nothing like I was working with in college. Like muscles....use it or lose it I guess. 

[The emperor has no clothes]

Mark, I had to study Boolean algebra in the USAF while going through missile school. Found it interesting, somewhat confusing at first but actually made sense to me. Sadly, as with my years of higher math, I've forgotten most of the Boolean concepts. I'm still able to work with basic algebra but nothing like I was working with in college. Like muscles....use it or lose it I guess. 

It seemed my entire "A" school of almost 6 months was all Boolean Algebra. I loved it. But I`d have to start from scratch now, if somebody asked me a question.

[DDT (12)]

Mark, I had to study Boolean algebra in the USAF while going through missile school. Found it interesting, somewhat confusing at first but actually made sense to me. Sadly, as with my years of higher math, I've forgotten most of the Boolean concepts. I'm still able to work with basic algebra but nothing like I was working with in college. Like muscles....use it or lose it I guess. 

It seemed my entire "A" school of almost 6 months was all Boolean Algebra. I loved it. But I`d have to start from scratch now, if somebody asked me a question.

Shoot, I'd start running away immediately if someone asked me a math question these days! I'd do the scratching later...   

DDT

[scooperhsd]

It mattered greatly who was teaching it. My degree is BS (CS) (Computer Science)  - boolean algebra as taught by engineers (I started out as a EE major) or the CS profs was easy - but they had us take a class from the philosophy department which made no sense at all to most of us CS majors.

Yes, I have forgotten more math than most people learn...... What can I say - 15 hours of calculus and 3 hours of differential equations (or the equivalent)  was pre-req to most EE courses. I graduated high school completed the equivalent of College Algebra and trigonometry.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Mark, I had to study Boolean algebra in the USAF while going through missile school. Found it interesting, somewhat confusing at first but actually made sense to me. Sadly, as with my years of higher math, I've forgotten most of the Boolean concepts. I'm still able to work with basic algebra but nothing like I was working with in college. Like muscles....use it or lose it I guess. 

It seemed my entire "A" school of almost 6 months was all Boolean Algebra. I loved it. But I`d have to start from scratch now, if somebody asked me a question.

Shoot, I'd start running away immediately if someone asked me a math question these days! I'd do the scratching later...   

DDT

[RainMaker]

I have never heard of this fellow. So, I decided to look him up. Seems a pretty intelligent man. I liked most of his quotes, this one especially ;

"Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them."

As a moderate, leaning conservative, I surprisingly found myself thinking about how these applied to the President.  Not what others have said about him, but his speeches where it's his words out of his mouth on video.  Make your own judgement.