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From: Wacek Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:18:37 +0100
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Kathryn Blackmond Laskey wrote:
> I can't resist.
>
>   
I had this in mind, but resisted.    (01)

vQ
> At least some of the entities that appear to at least one observer to 
> be sheep in Scotland seem to at least one observer to be black on at 
> least one side at least some of the time.
>
> At 2:10 PM +0100 12/11/07, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote:
>   
>> John F. Sowa wrote:
>>     
>>>  Wacek,
>>>
>>>  Your note reminds me of the story about four professors who
>>>  were traveling from England to Scotland by train.
>>>
>>>  As they crossed the border, they saw a flock of black sheep
>>>  on a hillside.  Whereupon, the English professor exclaimed
>>>  "Look, all the sheep in Scotland are black."
>>>
>>>  "No," replied the history professor, "the most you can claim
>>>  is that some of the sheep in Scotland are black."
>>>
>>>  The mathematics professor replied "No, the most you can claim
>>>  is that some of the sheep in Scotland are black on at least
>>>  one side."
>>>
>>>  Finally, the logic professor said "No, the most you can claim
>>>  is that at least some of the sheep in Scotland are black on at
>>>  least one side at least part of the time."
>>>  
>>>       
>> ... and if I were there, I'd say "No, the most you can claim is that at
>> least some of the sheep in Scotland seem black on at least one side at
>> least of the time to at least one observer." ;)
>>
>> vQ
>>
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