Premesses:
1. All you need is love.
2. You can't knit love.
Q.E.D.
All I need is yarn. The rest is secondary.
Post inspired by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's "At Knit's End."
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Knitting Proof
Premisses:
1. You are not smart enough to knit socks if and only if remaining premesses are false.
2. Socks are knit using a formula. True
3. 8-year-olds in Denmark are making better socks than me using aforementioned formula. True
4. Uneducated people all over the world are making better socks than me using aforementioned formula. True
5. You are highly educated and older than 8. True
Initial conclusion:
You have the capacity to knit socks.
Q.E.D.
You simply do not want to knit socks.
Please don't confuse the two.
1. You are not smart enough to knit socks if and only if remaining premesses are false.
2. Socks are knit using a formula. True
3. 8-year-olds in Denmark are making better socks than me using aforementioned formula. True
4. Uneducated people all over the world are making better socks than me using aforementioned formula. True
5. You are highly educated and older than 8. True
Initial conclusion:
You have the capacity to knit socks.
Q.E.D.
You simply do not want to knit socks.
Please don't confuse the two.
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