The resiliency seen empirically (which is the attribute shared with the object of the comparison i.e. the point of similarity to resilient rats) applies to the class, and not to its individual members. People kill rats all the time. They employ traps, poisons, cats, etc. These readily kill individual rats. Where there is any food for them, however, rats will soon be found again. Resilience of a class, in a familiar way. Thus an apt simile for the point she wished to make.
As for your silly examples, the attribute predicated does not belong to the class (or in your discrete case, the set) of which it is predicated, that is all.
You are free to maintain that birds are not rats, in general, and to disagree with Coulter on that basis. You are not free to pretend she said eagles are rats when she neither said nor implied any such thing. She is, incidentally, free to follow up and say that eagles are rats if she chooses. If she doesn't, you haven't a leg to stand on.
BS. Individual birds were killed. Individual birds returned. Individual eagles were rendered sterile by DDT.
The resiliency seen empirically (which is the attribute shared with the object of the comparison i.e. the point of similarity to resilient rats) applies to the class, and not to its individual members. People kill rats all the time. They employ traps, poisons, cats, etc. These readily kill individual rats. Where there is any food for them, however, rats will soon be found again. Resilience of a class, in a familiar way. Thus an apt simile for the point she wished to make.
There is nothing about the resiliency of a class of rats or birds that is not completely determined by the properties of the individual birds or rats. You're desperately handwaving. You can only reduce a population of eagles by acting on the individual birds.
As for your silly examples, the attribute predicated does not belong to the class (or in your discrete case, the set) of which it is predicated, that is all.
You have shown nothing about the example that is an attribute of the class as opposed to an attribute of individuals. Your silly example of sodium chloride is a case where both the sodium metal and the chlorine molecules are transformed chemically in order to make the salt. Birds are not transformed into something different by being several.
As for your silly examples, the attribute predicated does not belong to the class (or in your discrete case, the set) of which it is predicated, that is all.
Nonsense. You have totally failed to demonstrate why, if I kill 90 out of a 100 individual birds, I will do anything else than reduce the size of the class by 90%. It won't be reduced by 90.1%. It won't be reduced by 89.9%. There is absolutely nothing in the properties of the collective, with respect to survival, that is not a simple sum of the survival of the individual birds.
Now answer the questions.
You are not free to pretend she said eagles are rats when she neither said nor implied any such thing.
Eagles are birds. Birds are like rats, according to Coulter. Therefore eagles are like rats, according to Coulter. Deal with it.