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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: convincing
Message-ID: <1169@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-May-85 11:13:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 31 11:13:53 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Jun-85 13:22:52 EDT
References: <950@peora.UUCP> <1108@uwmacc.UUCP> <788@gloria.UUCP>
Reply-To: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious oyster)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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In article <788@gloria.UUCP> colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
>>                                                                      Most 
>> recently, I've spent the last 20 or so months constantly trying to convince
>> somebody (both verbally and otherwise) that she really is a desirable person,
>
>Statements with "is" are meaningless.  More specifically, you can hardly
>prove an abstraction like "she is a desirable (to the general public) person."
>You can easily prove that _you_ desire her.
>-- 
>Col. G. L. Sicherman
>...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel

   Oh... I see you must have editted the "to the general public" out of my
message in your reply.  And incidentally, if, as you state, statements with
"is" are meaningless, then statements with "are" must be meaningless too, 
since both "is" and "are" are different forms of the same word.  Hence your
statement proves itself false.

  "There, I've run rings around you logically."
-- 
 - j "vo" p

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