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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Use of "those" to mean "all those"
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In article <3327e9c8.2530841@nntp.lightlink.com>,
J. Edward Sanchez <jess@lightlink.com> wrote:
>
>As far as I'm concerned, "those" used in that sense always means
>"*all* those", and is completely unambiguous. Anyone who would
>disagree is IMO a sloppy thinker and perhaps shouldn't be taking
>classes in logic.

I love this logic!  "Sloppy thinkers shouldn't take logic."  I suppose
sloppy counters shouldn't take arithmetic, sloppy breathers shouldn't take
swimming, and sloppy people in general shouldn't take home ec.

I think the sentence is genuinely ambiguous, but what would I know?  I'm
just a sloppy thinker who had to give up on logic after two quarters.



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