Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!robison From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Professions and faulty logic Message-ID: <1159@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 12:54:07 EDT Article-I.D.: eosp1.1159 Posted: Mon Oct 1 12:54:07 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 06:03:50 EDT Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 29 References: >>> BEGIN QUOTE: An anthropologist, an astronomer, and a logician were riding a train from London to Edinburgh. None had been out of England before. As they crossed the border they saw a sign, "Entering Scotland," and just beyond it a single black sheep grazing. The anthropologist said, "Interesting. All sheep in Scotland are black." The astronomer said, "We can't conclude that on the evidence. All we can say is that some sheep in Scotland are black." The logician said, "Or more precisely: There appears to exist in Scotland at this moment at least one sheep that is black on at least one side." >>> END QUOTE. The astronomer has been greatly misrepresented in this story. The line attributed to him was probably spoken by a mathematician. Actually, the astronomer said, "Now that I know that Scottish sheep are black, I can account for all of the previously undiscovered and missing 90% of all matter in the universe." - Toby Robison (not Robinson!) allegra!eosp1!robison or: decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison or (emergency): princeton!eosp1!robison