The stink/The stank

Mark A. Mandel mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Tue Feb 8 22:02:51 UTC 2005


Wilson Gray syllogizes:
   >>>>>

Cleopatra was an Egyptian.
Egypt is in Africa.
The black race comes from Africa.
Therefore, Cleopatra was black.
 <<<<<

False logic, I'm afraid. Now, if the third line were "All Africans are
black" it would stand up a lot better.

-- Mark
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]



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