as a computer science student, i feel the need to defend my ol' pal Modus Ponens.
a) Modus Ponens is deductive reasoning! it's pretty much the definition of deductive reasoning!
b) Modus Ponens isn't about over-complicating "common sense" - it's about describing HOW we come to our common sense conclusions. Modus Ponens is solid proof; common sense is not. they're teaching you how to PROVE that your common sense deductions are true. i insist that this is a useful thing to know.
and SERIOUSLY, what is the deal with everyone our age getting married?!
lol i know that. im just angry they have to give it some greek word and some formula, because as an arts student, it makes things annoying. I dont want to pay 800.00 for a class about modua ponens, thats my point. with a 100.00 text book. seriously, fuck off (not you!!, the course!!). I'd rather take courses that im actually in university for. yes yes, i know, it "could" be useful, but my prof is absolutely miserable, no one comes to class and the ones who do just talk and disrupt the whole time. Its three unecessarily long hours of a lecture. They couldnt make it more painful and annoying, thats all.
Yeah, the whole world apparently gets married at 20..21? Haven't they seen the statistics? I wouldn't rush into that shit. lol
ah yes. paying unreasonable amounts of money to learn something that will rarely be useful to you (from a bad prof, at that) is easy to get angry about.
they make CS students here write compilers and operating systems. OPERATING SYSTEMS! surprisingly an interesting course (while compilers was total bullshit), but shouldn't be mandatory. when the hell will anyone EVER have to write their own operating system?!
I promise it gets better! First year (especially in the humanities & the social sciences) sucks, because it's all elementary survey-material bullshit, that never really gets into the thick of things. But it really does get better as you go on. And there will always be shitty classes that try and take the process of learning and attach it to a rubric that says 'you need to achieve these things to be smart', but that's all bullshit and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. You KNOW how to critically think. Fuck the textbook -- if you need to recite it to pass or do well, then do that, but it doesn't have anything to say about your ability to think in a critical way.
AHHHH fucking modus ponens!! i made the mistake of taking critical thinking in first year too, thinking it would be actual philosophy where you get to think for yourself... not so much haha.
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a) Modus Ponens is deductive reasoning! it's pretty much the definition of deductive reasoning!
b) Modus Ponens isn't about over-complicating "common sense" - it's about describing HOW we come to our common sense conclusions. Modus Ponens is solid proof; common sense is not. they're teaching you how to PROVE that your common sense deductions are true. i insist that this is a useful thing to know.
and SERIOUSLY, what is the deal with everyone our age getting married?!
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I dont want to pay 800.00 for a class about modua ponens, thats my point. with a 100.00 text book.
seriously, fuck off (not you!!, the course!!).
I'd rather take courses that im actually in university for.
yes yes, i know, it "could" be useful, but my prof is absolutely miserable, no one comes to class and the ones who do just talk and disrupt the whole time. Its three unecessarily long hours of a lecture.
They couldnt make it more painful and annoying, thats all.
Yeah, the whole world apparently gets married at 20..21?
Haven't they seen the statistics? I wouldn't rush into that shit. lol
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they make CS students here write compilers and operating systems. OPERATING SYSTEMS! surprisingly an interesting course (while compilers was total bullshit), but shouldn't be mandatory. when the hell will anyone EVER have to write their own operating system?!
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