Limerick: The Converse
A limerick about a man cursed to confuse every fact with its converse: 'So… all mammals are dogs?'
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-03-15-limericks-for-mathematicians--limerick-the-converse/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
"There once was a man with a curse / that couldn't have been any worse: / when faced with a fact / even slightly abstract / he conflated it with its converse." "So… all mammals are dogs?"