/sci/ - Science & Math

I only see a gorilla where is the scientist?

>>15901398
no i only look like a negress

>>15901398
HI anon. You're making a pretty basic logical error here. In syllogistic terms, it is the "fallacy of the undistributed middle term," which goes simply

>Some B are A.
>C is A.
>Therefore, C is B.

The fallacy is that C is B.

Rephrasing your argument in an analogous way:

<A black woman woman is a scientist. (This is a categorical statement linking black women to the category of scientists.)
>I am a scientist. (This places 'I' in the category of scientists.)
>Therefore, I am a black woman. (This is the incorrect conclusion.)

You can see the fallacy clearly.

>>15901954
>You can see the fallacy clearly.
I do but do you? Think again: every time I see the word black, I write the word noir and every time I see the word woman, I write the word femme. I get rewarded for doing that consistently but I don't know that I'm translating to French.
I'm afraid that many talented people function this way because they are not pressured and selected by a need to understand. That's what a scientist looks like to me.