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   mjoann to Peter T. Daniels   
   Re: Mike Love On The O'Reilly Factor   
   01 Dec 05 18:15:17   
   
   XPost: rec.music.artists.beach-boys   
   From: xtcmusicfan@netscape.com   
      
   Peter T. Daniels wrote:   
      
   > So you're not clever enough to interpret speech act jokes (or to express   
   > yourself unambiguously in the first place)? If you assert "20% of X is   
   > P," then a logical inference is that "80% of X is not-P."   
      
   No, it isn't. If I were to say that 20% of cars are not red, that   
   doesn't mean that 80% are. I originally said that I know that a full 20%   
   of a class cannot consist of geniuses, that doesn't mean the other 80%   
   does either.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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