Thursday, September 1, 2005

Law of Exception

It must have happened to quite a few of us. Something we created works for most scenarios and then one day when the scenario changes it stops working. Keeping this in mind I have formulated a law know as the Law of Exceptions.
This law merely states that there is always an exception to anything man made. For example if most of us find a person as very friendly and helpful there will always be atleast 1 person who despises him. Similarly, in a factory producing a product for every n number of products produced there will always be atleast 1 defective piece produced.
So when we make a generalized statement it merely means that the majority fall in that category and thus there is no such thing as a generalized statement.

2 comments:

NS said...

what ya!

Vivek Venugopal B said...

Wisiwug said - every rule has an exception, including this one. or does it? becoz tenson's law cannot have an exception.

Chander said - is this a recursion...law of exception having an exception

Venugopalvivek said - This probably also has an exception but then it will negate my law. So there cannot be a proof to this law. If there is no exception then my law does not hold valid so effectively my law is flawed.
Thanks Ananth for bringing this into light.

Chander said - ur law is not flawed...any law has got its exception...so if u r law proves that, then ur law holds good...if it doesnt prove that other laws doesnt have an exception ,then also it holds good because there is an exception in law of exception...hence proved...if this is the proof that u r looking for...how can there be a flaw in something that u have said...