Monthly Archives: September 2012
The Contrapositive
Today’s lesson comes from formal logic: the contrapositive. The contrapositive is the a reversal of an if-then statement, that is also true. In fact, it is the only construction that is always true. It is constructed by reversing the two … Continue reading
How to Use Comprise
This week I saw not one, but two (gasp!) misuses of the word comprise; therefore comprise is this week’s Pearl of Wisdom. Let us begin with the completely, utterly, and totally incorrect. Do not ever write “is comprised of.” So, … Continue reading
Bates Numbering
Most of my fellow readers spend many hours each day looking at Bates numbered documents, the individual identifying number found on each document turned over in discovery as part of a legal proceeding. You might wonder where the term Bates … Continue reading