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Logically Speaking, Period 6, 19 May '09
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!]
"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!]
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