Velo Philosophers

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Comment by Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer! on October 1, 2010 at 1:53pm

This is something I think many of you would enjoy, The Zen Tour of Chicago, http://www.thechainlink.org/xn/detail/2211490:Event:240859.

Comment by Audrey Crescenti on July 30, 2010 at 9:41pm

[below]=cultural variation of ethical relativism... Though it's not too "velo" related. Also a bit eery since I recently had this on the brain --> http://www.damninteresting.com/the-great-taste-of-human-flesh-witho...

Comment by mike w. on July 30, 2010 at 8:55pm

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country. -Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)

Comment by Paul Gurns on July 28, 2010 at 9:48am

Statistical:
Almost every bike ride less than one hour is done riding my mountain bike in proportion to my hybrid. I never ride less than one hour on the weekends. Therefore my mountain bike gets little to no use on the weekends.

Comment by Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer! on July 27, 2010 at 7:46pm

Correction just in case,

Deductive: I cannot both bike on my fixie and my hybrid at the same time. I am not on my hybrid right now [but I am biking], so I must therefore be riding on my fixie.

Comment by Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer! on July 27, 2010 at 7:44pm

Bob, correct me if I am wrong but a Deductive Syllogism require no real world rational to make it correct all they need is to be logically recursive.

Comment by Bob Kastigar on July 27, 2010 at 3:40pm

From Spencer: "Deductive: I cannot both ride my fixie and my hybrid at the same time. I am not riding on my hybrid right now now, so I must therefore be riding on my fixie. "

Inconsistent. There's no statement that you're riding ANYTHING. Alternately, you may be RIDING in a car instead of DRIVING a bicycle.

Comment by Audrey Crescenti on July 27, 2010 at 3:18pm

brilliant!

If cycling is exhilarating and good for one's mental/physical health, then it is both fun and practical, respectively.
If cycling is both fun and practical, then it is a desired mode of transportation.
Cycling is exhilarating.
Cycling is conducive to one's mental/physical health.
Ergo, cycling is a desired mode of transportation.

Comment by Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer! on July 27, 2010 at 2:46pm

Deductive: I cannot both ride my fixie and my hybrid at the same time. I am not riding on my hybrid right now now, so I must therefore be riding on my fixie.

Comment by Audrey Crescenti on July 27, 2010 at 1:53pm

can we come up with bike-themed syllogisms?
they'll all involve contingent truths...or hypothetical imperatives...or synthetic/a posteriori notions... but what the hell!

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