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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