Alan White The Hooks a Bust Lyrics

The hook's a bust,
it sometimes lies,
the hook says things
we despise.
The hook's a bust--
conveying so much more
than intentions mean to say--
entailment can make statements
with a sequitur of nay--

antecedents full of falsehood,
consequents no more good--
truth-functional meaning
cannot capture what is
all that is conditioned--

you know the hook's a bust
upon its face,
the hook implies
what's not the case--
benign, if right,
but oh so wrong if its "then"
conflicts with protasis--
examples counter to sense
are multiplicit--

antecedents full of falsehood,
consequents no more good--
truth-functional meaning
cannot capture what is
all that is conditioned--

artificial!
artificial!

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