Logician?
(Definition via Uncyclopedia)
A logician is an entertainer who tries to make people laugh by playing tricks and acting, not unlike clowns do, but clowns take their jobs much more seriously than most logicians. Most traditional logicians try to reduce as much as they can to absurdity, using reductio ad absurdum, thus making falsum the sound basis of all knowledge.
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The philosopher, A.J. Ayer, who was certainly the life and centre of any party he was at, was once dancing with an attractive woman who asked him what he did for a living. He then received 30 minutes of questions about rabbits, playing cards, bisected women, etc. Finally he realized that she'd heard "magician", when he'd said "logician".
Posted by Peter
I think the social skills of the students in the logic group here are certainly more developed than those of average members of the math department. Whether they're more developed than those of average people, I can't say. But I'll have to try that party trick out next weekend.
Posted by Kenny Easwaran
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