Logically Speaking, Period 6, 19 May '09

[offthelisthero.livejournal.com]

Mohinder was standing at the front of the classroom, as he passed out a few handouts.

"Alright," he started. "One of the first points to winning your arguments is to make sure your opponent has the same frame of reference you do. If your company is 50 billion in debt you need to know if that's a million million or thousand million Australian, Canadian or American. Language and meaning change over time, distance and even how a sentence is put together can lead to it being misinterpreted."

"This can be exploited in argument or lying by telling the truth, or at least a precisely defined honesty and is invaluable in programming a computer that's smart enough to understand what you told it but not to know what you meant. Now, I want you try these handouts while talking with each other - see what impression you can make without actually saying anything false."

[OCD is up!]

Comments

Listening 2 (LS)

[offthelisthero.livejournal.com]

Attentively?

Re: Listening 2 (LS)

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Liir was listening, and he was starting to wonder if this was the right class for him. He was very good at obfuscating things without lying. Ino called him on it all the time. He was more looking to NOT do that.

Well, one does what one must.

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[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

Claire had a feeling that the things she learned in this workshop would be very useful for her in the future.

Re: Listening 2 (LS)

[intraspective]

Ino was grinning, a bit viciously, at the topic. Oh, this was totally up her alley. Yes, yes it was.

She was totally good at noticing it.

Re: Listening 2 (LS)

[yakkoyaks.livejournal.com]

Yakko was listening attentively.

(To a song that was playing in his head. But he WAS listening.)

Re: Listening 2 (LS)

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

Ah, lies and truth. Truth and lies. Valentine wore an amused grin on her face as she listened to a topic she felt she could honestly say she knew plenty about.

Lies were sometimes more dependable than the truth.

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[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Fifty billion in debt? Wow, Gabrielle thought, that was a lot of dinars.