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Saturday, April 23, 2011

The Logical Fallacy of Catch 22



Previously, I have written the short story, entitled, "Catch 22 in Prague." In this short story, a young woman is told by Clerk Tom, at the passport window, that to get a passport, she must first have an international driver's license. Then, at the international driver's license window, Clerk Bill tells her that she must have a passport to get an international driver's license. Thus, we can see that the young woman is caught in a Catch 22 situation. We can see this more clearly in the following logical analysis of the situation:

1. Assume the Causal Logical Syllogism, If A, then B, A, therefore B.
2. If pp then, dl
3. If dl, then pp
4. not pp therefore, not dl
5. not dl therefore, not pp
6. deduce not pp and not dl
Thus, we can see that is impossible to get either the drivers license nor the passport, even though the beuracratic system states that you can in fact get a driver's license and a passport

7. pp and dl if application process completed
8. pp and dl if process completed and not pp and not dl when process used
9. not pp and not dl, and, pp and dl
10. 9 involves a logical contradiction, you cannot have pp and not pp, in the same
time and the same place, and you cannot have dl and not dl, in the same time and the
same place
11. Thus, we can conclude that the application process, above, is a fraudulent, fallacious one, and thus violates substantive and procedural due process, as well as Sheriff's Law.

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