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From: odin@bucsb.UUCP (Ben Page)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Roosters laying eggs
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 04:02:03 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 18 04:02:03 1986
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has taken a course in logic knows, the truth or falsehood of the premises has
nothing to do with the validity of the argument.  Admittedly it is unsound 
reasoning to suppose that a rooster is laying an egg, but the question does
not say "Can a rooster lay eggs, and if so...", it says "If a rooster...".
Thus we are already informed that the rooster has layed the egg!  It is a 
forgone conclusion!  And negations of that fact render the whole question,
including the answer, useless.
   
Ben Page
Boston University

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