You totally missed the point Grasshopper, it is not algebra.
It is fallacious logic to try and equate the subset with the whole. To overcome this Petronski was forced to make absurd statements (rather than simply correct the faulty logic). Some people simple refuse to admit they are wrong.
So stop doing it.
Every time you type software=firmware or firmware=software, YOU are equivocating and/or equating the two. For seven straight days I've been trying to explain to you that YOU are equating them. Whenever I type "firmware=software is false," I am directly contradicting your equation/equivocation of the two.
First of all I am not "Grasshopper" to your "wise mentor"... stop using it to denigrate me and my expertise. It is neither funny nor appreciated because it is merely another form of ad hominem attack intended to disparage my comments.
It is fallacious logic to try and equate the subset with the whole. To overcome this Petronski was forced to make absurd statements (rather than simply correct the faulty logic).
And please stop trying to teach me elementary logic. I paid for one year of college over 30 years ago by tutoring other students in Logic... and, Dog, my friend, it is YOU who are spouting nonsense. Petronski is correct.
You state correctly above that it is fallacious logic to "equate the subset with the whole" but, Dog, it is you who claimed "Socrates (the subset) = (equals) Man (the whole).
Petronsky, and others, have rightly pointed out to you that for your syllogism to be true, a delimiter must be included to limit the set "man" making it "a man". You seem to be unable to grasp this important distinction or you are being deliberately obtuse.
Some people simple refuse to admit they are wrong.
How right you are... because you have just described yourself on this ENTIRE thread.