Reading the documentation

[Rustom Mody]

On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 8:28:55 AM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote:
> On Aug 24, 2017 8:51 PM, "Larry Martell"  wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 9:21 PM Rustom Mody wrote:
> 
> > Statement 1: Aeroplanes fly
> > Statement 2: Submarines swim
> >
> >
> > Are these two statements equally acceptable?
> >
> > [Inspired by a talk by Noam Chomsky]
> 
> There should be a corollary of Godwin's law for that idiot.
> 
> 
> Chomsky borrowed it from Dijkstra, I think.
> 
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD898.html

I was about to start with the Dijkstra connection but then cut it because irrelevant
However I find the two very different
I think Dijkstra's "Can a submarine swim?" is almost entirely a mockery of the idea
However Chomsky's laconic juxtaposition points to the deep non-rational 
programming in our subconscious mind of what we accept and what we dont

[Larry seems to be angry about/at somethin'… No idea who/what…]