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Old 04-24-2006, 11:30 PM
luckyme luckyme is offline
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Default Goodbye,Descartes

A few years back a friend recommended "Goodbye, Descartes". I settled in for a good read .. until I reached page 44 and --
"No horned animal is a unicorn."
"All unicorns are horned animals."
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"Some unicorns are not horned animals."

I actually put the book down after that page, thinking that it was a simple equivocation error and not wanting to read a book that slipped into one on page 44 and used it as an example of "Aristotle's error."

I saw a reference to the book recently and now I'm wondering if I was too hasty in not finishing the book.

any opinions? luckyme
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