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To: Petronski
You failed logic.

All humans are apes. Therefore, anything that is not an ape is not human.

Where's the error?

238 posted on 12/10/2008 9:06:03 PM PST by GL of Sector 2814
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To: GL of Sector 2814; Petronski
[GL] "The great apes are the members of the biological family Hominidae which includes humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans." This means that if you're not an ape, you're not human...by definition.

[Petronski] You failed logic.

[GL] Where's the error?

All humans are Hominidae.
All apes are Hominidae.
Therefore, all humans are apes.

All apes are vertebrates.
All fish are vertebrates.
Therefore, all apes are fish.

Corollary:

All humans are fish.


241 posted on 12/11/2008 4:56:23 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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To: GL of Sector 2814

On further review, you did not fail logic, but I failed reading comprehension.


249 posted on 12/11/2008 8:36:07 AM PST by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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