<div>On 7/22/06, martin <<a href="mailto:mschiller@pobox.com">mschiller@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Jul 22, 2006, at 8:10 AM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > because as Sartre used to say, "Stupidity is > a form of oppression." Oppression can take many other forms, many of which depend on knowledge. 'Stupidity' suggests simplicity. </blockquote></div>Martin I don't want to be pedantic here but you seem to be missing something of the logic of the statement.  If x then y does not equal If y then x Sartre's statement "Stupidity is a form of oppression." Reduces to "If stupid then oppressed."  This is probably not always true but I take the slogan for what it is, a new way of looking at stupidity.  But your criticism "Oppression can take many other forms, many of which depend on knowledge."  implies that you have taken the statement to mean: "If oppressed then stupid."  Which if you were taking the LSATs you would get very low marks for. Please forgive me here but, if you mean something else, or simply had a synapses snap at the wrong time and would like to correct your statement I will refrain from further pedestrian pedantic uses of positives  and contrapositives. Jerry