Notes from the underground
Updated 1 August 2024
Logic test!
1. Introduction
2. Another example
3. The king
4. Shortage of teachers
5. The oracle
6. Saying something false
7. A slew of ifs
8. A passage from Kripke
9. Something about everything
10. Truth-value gap
11. The future is fluid
12. Believe it or not
13. Either … or …
4. Shortage of teachers
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Julien Harneis
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Here’s another swift remark. Can you see the shape of the reasoning?
If teaching is such an attractive profession, why is there a shortage of teachers?
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If teaching were an attractive position, there would be no shortage of teachers
There is a shortage of teachers
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Teaching is not an attractive position
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