One day a man passed by a farm and saw a beautiful horse.
Hoping to buy the animal, he said to the farmer: "I think your horse looks pretty good, so I'll give you $500 for him."
"He doesn't look good, and he's not for sale," the farmer said.
The man insisted, "I think he looks good and I'll up the price to $1000!"
"He doesn't look so good," the farmer said, "but if you want him that much, he's yours."
The next day the man came back raging mad. He went up to the farmer and screamed, "You sold me a blind horse! You cheated me!"
The farmer calmly replied, "I told you he didn't look so good, didn't I?"
Logic is the study of the principles of valid inference and demonstration. The word derives from Greek λογική (logike), fem. of λογικός (logikos), "possessed of reason, intellectual, dialectical, argumentative", from λόγος (logos), "word, thought, idea, argument, account, reason, or principle".
"Logic is the branch of philosophy that treats of forms of thinking."
"The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking should be conducted; the science of the formation and application of general notions; the science of generalization, judgment, classification, reasoning, and systematic arrangement; correct reasoning." ~ A treatise on Logic
The media reports that there are 204 "countries" competing in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing but with only 195 countries in the world, how does that work out? Allow me to explain.
All but three of the 195 independent countries of the world are participating in the Olympic Games, thus there are 192 countries participating.
There are twelve territories or other entities that have been permitted by the International Olympic Committee to have their own National Olympic Committee (NOC). By having an independent NOC, each of these twelve places is able to compete in the Olympic Games and plans on sending athletes to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Games there.
Thus, the total of 192 independent countries and 12 territories equals the number 204 that is being thrown about as the number of "countries" competing in the Summer Games.
Three Countries Not Participating in the Olympic Games:
Brunei has planned on sending its two athletes to the Summer Games but they unfortunately did not register swimmer Maria Grace Koh and shot putter Mohammed Yazid Yatimi Yusof on time.
Kosovo is the world's newest country and does not yet have complete international recognition. Therefore, Kosovo does not have a National Olympic Committee and could not compete in Beijing.
The Vatican City does not have a National Olympic Committee and has not publicized any aspirations to form one in order to compete in the Olympic Games.
Non-Countries Participating in the Olympic Games:
These are the twelve non-countries participating in the Summer Games. I have included the reason that each entity is not a country.
American Samoa (a territory of the United States)
Aruba (part of the Netherlands)
Bermuda (a territory of the United Kingdom)
British Virgin Islands (a territory of the United Kingdom)
Cayman Islands (a territory of the United Kingdom)
Cook Islands (self-governing in free association with New Zealand)
Guam (a territory of the United States)
Hong Kong (special administrative region of China)
Netherlands Antilles (a territory of the Netherlands)
Palestine (Palestine is not a country.)
Puerto Rico (a territory of the United States)
U.S. Virgin Islands (a territory of the United States)
Written by Matt Rosenberg
It is a little-known fact that King Arthur had more knights than is usually believed. They included:
Of course, there was the devastatingly handsome, but disappointingly shallow knight - Sir Face. Also...
~ Sir Pass – Arthur's best knight of all
~ Sir Port - A great help to all the other knights
~ Sir Culation – A knight who got around a bit - popular at parties
~ Sir Prise – the knight who could always be relied on to do the unexpected
~ Sir Vey – a watchful knight
~ Sir Monise – a rather long-winded and droning knight, but a good, moral sort
~ Sir Cuitous - a knight who approached his duties in a roundabout way
~ Sir Pose - a knight who stands by wild predictions
~ Sir Cumflex – a knight with a strange accent
~ Sir Cumvent – the evasive knight
~ Sir Reen – a calm and cheerful knight
~ Sir Spicious – a paranoid knight
~ Sir Real – a vague and insubstantial knight
~ Sir Cumstances – a knight whose fault it never was
Then there were the non identical twins - Winter Solstice and Summer Solstice - the longest and shortest knights.
