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04/18/2004 Archived Entry: "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus "Never tickle a sleeping dragon""
Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus "Never tickle a sleeping dragon" -- motto of Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling. ... from the List of Latin phrases in the primary logic section which includes Logic and other interesting topics such as: Abduction , Abraham Robinson, Adolf Fraenkel, Affirming the antecedent, Alfred North Whitehead, Alfred Tarski, Alonzo Church, Alphabet, Antinomy, Argument form, Aristotelian logic, Aristotle, Augustus DeMorgan, Axiom, Axiomatic system, Axiomatization, Backward chaining, Barcan formula, Bertrand Russell, Biconditional elimination, Biconditional introduction, Bivalence and related laws, Boolean algebra, Charles Peirce, Clarence Irving Lewis, College logic, Combinatorial logic, Combinatory logic, Conditional, Conditional proof, Conjunction elimination, Conjunctive normal form, Contrapositive, Converse , Counterfactual conditional, Curry's paradox, David Hilbert, De Morgan's Laws, Deduction theorem, Deductive reasoning, Degree of truth, and more and
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ok.......so what does it mean??? does it mean 'never tickle a sleeping dragon??'
Posted by jenny @ 04/27/2004 03:42 PM CST