Mar 25, 2021
Eulerisms
Anybody else find something oddly human about how Euler diagrams work? The whole idea was to prove something invalid by finding a situation that satisfies a certain combination of conditions and then saying “Yeah sure but when you put it like this, it’s all wrong”. It’s very cute. Almost child-like in the way the point is dragged around when you say “Nuh-uh”. I think this curiosity to prove something invalid is what has pushed us into progress. In technology, in science, in sociology, we find things we believe can never be contested or say “hey that’s impossible” but then as a human species we’re like but what if it’s like *this* then for some reason it just...works? Weird.