Comments on: Honor Societies

By: Bama Cracker

Bama Cracker — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:07:40 +0000

So, did anyone besides me notice Jason Foxx in the third panel? Most of my friends don’t “get” it, because they never read Foxtrot.

By: Quim Nuss

Quim Nuss — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:01:33 +0000

Moreover, it may actually be also based on computer science’s propositional logic, taken directly from philosophy as stated above.

By: ahmed

ahmed — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:28:37 +0000

The first rule of Fight Club is, you do not talk about Fight Club.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:14:47 +0000

The latter one is actually a axiom in logic dating back to Aristotle.

Let P be a true/false statement.
Either P or not P is true, but not both at the same time, and there is no third option.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_logic

By: Shlamko

Shlamko — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:01:19 +0000

Tautology can also reffer to an argument that proves itself of is its own explanation, or, like it can also be, both.

And, of course, thre is a nice circular logic in the fact that this strip is reffering to this group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=336707071150&ref=nf
Which reffers to the strip. Join!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:58:15 +0000

Tautologies are actually statements that are universally true, like “All bachelors are unmarried,” or, “I’m either at the movies or not at the movies, but not both.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology

By: Adam Doyle

Adam Doyle — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:53:03 +0000

Aside from its use in the English language, it’s also a term in Discreet Math where a “statement” is true for all possible inputs. It’s the opposite of a contradiction. For instance, the statement p == p is a tautology because it will always return true no matter what the value of p is. I would guess that Randall, with his comics being heavily inspired by math, probably came to knowing of a tautology from his math background.

By: altor

altor — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:51:41 +0000

The “If 1,000,000 people joined…” statement is also a jab at all those types of groups out there.

http://www.google.com/search?q=if+1000000+people+join

By: onli

onli — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:26:15 +0000

It’s not primary about repeating, it’s about explaining something with itself. It’s honourable if you do something honourable…