Posts Tagged ‘ contradiction ’

Cecilia’s Reflection Week 10

November 14, 2011
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Cecilia’s Reflection Week 10

How to start this week’s reflection? That is the question I have been asking myself for the past twenty-two minutes, blankly staring at my computer screen. This week was not particularly exciting. We learned about Boolean Algebra, which is basically another way of expressing logic notation and set notation, except with different symbols. I didn’t…

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Irene’s Reflection Week 6

October 19, 2011
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Irene’s Reflection Week 6

Hello all people reading my blog post. This week in math class, I learned a very imprtant prrof called Proof by CONTRADICTION! =) How I wish I had a stamp that says that, Sam and Cecilia! Well, now to more serious matters… Proof by contradiction is where you assume the hypothesis of the implication and…

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Cecilia’s Reflection Week 6

October 17, 2011
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Cecilia’s Reflection Week 6

I’ve always loved proving people wrong, especially about clouds or grammar. Normally, I could think of something witty or clever to say back at the person who was trying to argue with me, but sometimes, my brain seems empty. In these situations, I bring out the Proof by Cloudiansim: The clouds believe so. Therefore, it…

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Sarah’s Weekly Reflection 8

October 27, 2010
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Sarah’s Weekly Reflection 8

Hello! It’s another week and school’s been getting busier as we get more homework, projects, tests, and whatnot. Meanwhile, it has been getting colder (overall; it’s still improving in temperature over the next few days, I think) and really does feel like fall when the wind’s blowing. Haha; my introductions still sound so random. I’m not good…

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Alicia’s Weekly Reflection 8

October 27, 2010
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Alicia’s Weekly Reflection 8

So, my week have been really stressful and full of misunderstanding, but somehow I managed to live through all that drama. While working through contradictions this week, I suddenly related it to a conversation in band, about “catch twenty two”. For example, you can only get dog if you have an experience as an owner.…

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“When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don’t state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.” ~ Lewis Carroll