Dear readers,
Have fun reading the following passage. It
massages your brain little bit.
You know the old story about an economist, a
physicist, and a mathematician driving through Scotland? They see a brown
cow out of the window, and the economist says, 'Fascinating that the cows
in
Scotland are brown.' The physicist says, 'I'm afraid you're over
generalizing from the evidence. All we know is that some cows in
Scotland are brown.' Finally, the mathematician shakes his head at
both of them. 'Wrong again. Completely unwarranted by the evidence. All we
can infer, logically, is that there exists at least one cow in this
country, at least one side of which is brown.'
-Ludlum, R. (2005). The Ambler
Warning.
