The stink/The stank

[Wilson Gray]

WTF, Mark?! Is my writing really so obscure? My whole point is that,
unfortunately, there are some black people, even in academia, who
accept such syllogisms as fully logical and do not - or refuse to -
recognize them as nonsense. If my example syllogism had been logically
true, it would have been totally beside the point. And "All Africans
are black" is likewise false, even if one restricts oneself to
sub-Saharan Africa.

-Wilson

On Feb 8, 2005, at 5:02 PM, Mark A. Mandel wrote:

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> Wilson Gray syllogizes:
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> Cleopatra was an Egyptian.
> Egypt is in Africa.
> The black race comes from Africa.
> Therefore, Cleopatra was black.
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> False logic, I'm afraid. Now, if the third line were "All Africans are
> black" it would stand up a lot better.
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> -- Mark
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