[lit-ideas] The Taste of Twater
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:46:57 EDT
In a message dated 7/8/2009 10:55:26 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
karltrogge@xxxxxxxx writes:
Fallacious reasoning? Like 'improper appeal to authority', perhaps?
No.
P. A. Stone argued:
All women are women
But only some women are moms
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Therefore, there are more women than moms
Mutatis mutandis for 'water'.
Basically, Stone's reasoning is that 'water' is more abundant than ice and
vapour. And so it's a supraset. This is fallacious:
As much as ANY WOMAN (to use Aristotle's term)
is potentially able to transform into a mother
ditto
it's ridiculous to suppose that there's more water than ice and vapour.
Cheers,
J. L. Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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