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From: wws@siemens.UUCP (William W Smith)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.philosophy,net.nlang
Subject: All men...
Message-ID: <237@siemens.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Jul-84 10:57:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 25 10:57:14 1984
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If all men must die, some men are female.

If all men (mankind) must die, some men (males) are female.

Without the parenthesized comments, this statement is true but very 
disconcerting in English.  With the comments, you the irony of the statement
is seen as a fallacy in reasoning.  In logic it is a perfectly acceptable
statement, "If all men (mankind) must die, some men (mankind) are female."

It is also an invalid deduction: "If all men (males) must die, some men
(males) are female."

Submitted for your approval by Bill Smith
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