{"id":328,"date":"2013-10-28T19:34:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T19:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/?p=328"},"modified":"2013-10-28T19:34:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T19:34:45","slug":"the-transitivity-of-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/belief\/logic\/the-transitivity-of-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transitivity of Improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It hit me. The solution to all our problems. And it&#8217;s all based on a mathematical attribute named <strong>&#8216;Transitivity&#8217;<\/strong>. Quoting Wikipedia: <em>In mathematics, a binary relation R over a set X is transitive if whenever an element a is related to an element b, and b is in turn related to an element c, then a is also related to c.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So here goes: Let X be the set of all actions and consequences that may happen in one&#8217;s country. Let R be the obviously-transitive relation &#8216;improve&#8217;. You still don&#8217;t see it? Don&#8217;t worry here it comes&#8230; It&#8217;s a well known fact that improving the religious situation of a country (i.e., demoting religion there) &#8211; improves the overall situation of that country. It&#8217;s also a fact of life that teaching evolution in schools demotes religion (i.e., improves the religious situation).<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion: Teaching evolution improves our overall situation. How much so? Well, it&#8217;s about time we put it to a test!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It hit me. The solution to all our problems. And it&#8217;s all based on a mathematical attribute named &#8216;Transitivity&#8217;. Quoting Wikipedia: In mathematics, a binary relation R over a set X is transitive if whenever an element a is related to an element b, and b is in turn related to an element c, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,46,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-evolution","category-logic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}