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    Quote Originally Posted by Vois View Post
    shit test.

    question 5: If someone says, "I killed all of the Gormagians," when is it logically true?
    "correct" answer: It's logically true when Gormagians never existed.

    nope nope nope
    Quote Originally Posted by Aylen View Post
    This question was my main source of frustration and someone tried to explain it to me for a half hour and I kept saying illogical. grrrr
    If something does not exist then you can safely state anything about it, it will be logically true. Sorry if that's by now trivial for you

    In case it's not clear: not only are all the other answer options are false if you want to interpret them in the most absolutely anal way (which I was perfectly willing to do hehe) but if we state that the Gormagians don't exist then we can deduce everything crazy to be true from that. (Everything that would otherwise be contradictions.) In this sense the statement in the question is logically true.

    Note: there are different ways of logical reasoning outside the scope of basic first order formal logic that deal with these sort of issues differently. But that goes way beyond this test

    Btw I got one question wrong, scored 41 out of 45, test calling me "Most Logical". But that one question is bullshit haha (question 11). (Explanation for why it's bullshit, two answers are logically valid but only one answer is elegant and that's the one that's accepted.)


    You Are Most Logical!

    You scored 41 out of 45.
    You know deduction. You spot inconsistency. You know the difference between a contingency and a tautology. For you, most discourse is more or less transparent. Accept these kudos as the least that this quiz can offer to you.
    If you didn't get a perfect score, wait a week and review the thing then. You definitely have a sense for implications and proofs, but may have gotten caught up in some of the rhetoric along the way.

    Your Analysis (Vertical line = Average)



    • You scored 41% on Validity, higher than 94% of your peers.


    Last edited by Myst; 05-02-2015 at 01:54 PM.

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