There was a perfect storm of reasons to come to Logic class yesterday, but there were apparently also insurmountable obstacles preventing it. Yesterday, we had the Truth Table Olympics final round (prizes! competition! fun!), an assignment due (hand-in-able only in class, as usual on Mondays), the promise of new material essential to the coming last days of the semester, and a rainy cold day (as opposed to a warm morning that would have tempted students to go outside instead of to class). Who wouldn't want to go to class?
Slightly more than half of the 21 students.
Sigh.
“An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we take on and wear when we assimilate the culture of our own time and place. But intelligent furthering of culture demands that we take some of them off, that we inspect them critically to see what they are made of and what wearing them does to us.” ― John Dewey, Experience and Nature
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