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Re:I deduce you are studying logic by powrtoch on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @05:11PM (#10307244)
You're studying the tautologic that you're studying

Sickeningly, you're studying illogic

You're a circular logician because you're studying circular logic. You're studying circular logic because you're a circular logician.

I realized you'd been studying fridge logic

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Re:I deduce you are studying logic by JadeNB on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @09:48PM (#10308732)
> I realized you'd been studying fridge logic

If it's appropriate to make a joke, then hopefully it's appropriate to admit not to getting it; and this one defeats me.

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Re:I deduce you are studying logic by vadskye on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @09:53PM (#10308741)
It's a reference to this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FridgeLogic
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Re:I deduce you are studying logic by ableal on Thursday October 01, 2015 @04:57AM (#10310004)
Thanks, that clears it up. Weird that they didn't put in a reference to close kin 'staircase wit': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier
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