Shane: > But a single instance disproof works only against a *universal* > statement (one put in terms of "all" or "none") It does not work > against a *generalized* statement (one put in terms of "most all" or > "very few").
Precisely! That was what I had been trying to say! Nothing more! So, we better be very careful with making *universal* statements and my recent objections to Carrol were because of that! He was falling into the same trap he was objecting to, although his intentions were good. People like me are called "anal" in this business, to mean that we are unnecessarily analytical, in my wishful thinking, of course. Who knows, maybe they mean something else by the word "anal," but I am too naive to know what it means, or so I pretend! Best, Sabri _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
