Logic Lovers Gifts

When Engineers Crack.

Illogic Tree

Immanuel Kant

Mr. Spock at a child rearing seminar.

Arthur Conan Doyle, MD, observes a passerby who has touch stains on his fingers, paint on his trousers and plaster on his jacket, and quickly deduces the man is a slob.

'My Turing Machine doesn't understand me.'

Rene Descartes

5th Grade Logic.

''Time is an illusion'? - How long did it take you to come up with that?'

'According to the law of averages, wouldn't the glass slipper fit a lot of maidens?'

'In this house I'm the one with the horse sense...Joe represents the other end of the animal.'

Employment Tribunal: 'My client would like it known that contrary to popular opinion, he is hardly ever ill.'

Philosophy Department. 38 days without logical fallacy. (Published originally on December 6, 2007.)

Multiply. - x - = +. + x + = +. Two negatives make a positive, but two positives don't make a negative. Yeah, right.

This sign seems to be paradoxical, but really isn't.

Things equal to the same thing are equal to each other. That's "Euclid." Some of us call him "Mister Obvious."

"Who was first?"

'You may now turn over your paper and begin.' - 'Sir!' - 'Yes?' - 'What is it?' - 'I think Train 'A' and Train 'B' might be going to crash!'

'Einstein, the children are getting too complex for me.'

'Never mind inspiration. I need background material on atomic physics.'

Thinking Gears

'How can we believe anything when we can disprove everything?'

'Here's MY information highway!'

'Assuming their porridge was poured at the same time, how could it then be too hot, too cold and just right?'

"Your son is asking a lot of questions about the giant hands in the sky that controls everything."

'According to creation mathematicians, all of Euclid's theories were originally found etched into rocks.'

A Major Refresher Course is in Order.

'Have you no common scents?!'

"This just in: one of us always tells lies; the other always tells the truth. Who's who? Stay tuned."

'Upgrades? Yes, we've programmed it to excrete a few drops of water if it should lose a chess match. You know - tears.'

How to get from A to Z. Right brain versus left brain.

"Well, I'm studying mathematics and I'm sure that's tougher than math."

Staff Yearbook

Skeptic: Critical Thinking, Facts, Debunking.

'Stevens, get in here. I need a few minutes with the left side of your brain.'