Re: All panduks are green

Newberry <newberryxy@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Does everybody agree that

"All panduks are green"

is meaningless?

If "panduk" is a meaningless term, then that sentence is meaningless.

If "panduk" is a defined term, then that sentence is meaningful
whether there are panduks or not.

--
Jesse F. Hughes
"How come there's still apes running around loose and there are
humans? Why did some of them decide to evolve and some did not? Did
they choose to stay as a monkey or what?" -Kans. Board of Ed member
.

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