Erwin Schrödinger’s Birthday

[O'Searcaigh]

If that that is 'is' is that that is not 'not is', is that that is 'not is' that that is not 'is'?

Formally (syntactically) yes, whether the meaning of 'is' is an is of attribution (material implication) or is an is of identity (bi-conditional) because “that that is 'is' is that that is not 'not is' if and only if that that is 'not is' is that that is not 'is'” -- otherwise known as the “Law of Transposition.” However, informally (semantically) it all depends on what the meanings of all the is’s are and especially if the ‘is not’ is an is not of specific denial or an is not of nothingness and hence semantically open to a fallacy of ambiguity (equivocation). At least that’s my take on it as a student of nothing!

[McElmurry]

Sometimes an is is just an is.

[unixken]

Formally (syntactically) yes, whether the meaning of 'is' is an is of attribution (material implication) or is an is of identity (bi-conditional) because “that that is 'is' is that that is not 'not is' if and only if that that is 'not is' is that that is not 'is'” -- otherwise known as the “Law of Transposition.” However, informally (semantically) it all depends on what the meanings of all the is’s are and especially if the ‘is not’ is an is not of specific denial or an is not of nothingness and hence semantically open to a fallacy of ambiguity (equivocation). At least that’s my take on it as a student of nothing!

You SO just reminded me of the "Romans, go home!" scene, from "The Life of Brian". LOL

[ForresterModern]

Might be interesting to know when the cat's birthday is, eh? Don't have to worry about the second date on his tombstone since nobody will ever know until somebody gets up the guts to open the darned box.

[KD Burke]

Cats in boxes....not sure I approve of that!

[sydnie7]

Cats in boxes....not sure I approve of that!

Me neither!



(a belated post, owing to problems uploading photos as threaded in the Tech forum)

[AFS1970]

To paraphrase Groucho Marx: What the cat was doing in my boxers, I'll never know!

And to think all those years, I never knew Groucho was a scientist.

[O'Searcaigh]

You SO just reminded me of the "Romans, go home!" scene, from "The Life of Brian". LOL

Now write that 100 times before morning or... Oh yea, and what have the Romans done for us? -- love it!!!

[crash]

How many people here would not even know who Schrodinger or his cat were if not for Big Bang Theory?

[EagleJCS]

How many people here would not even know who Schrodinger or his cat were if not for Big Bang Theory?

I would... I've known about Schroedinger (and his cat) since the late 1980's.