Mark J. Reed wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:40:22PM +0000, Joe wrote:
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>>Maybe it was borrowed from English. But with 'confirm' it's just
>>nonsense, anyway.
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>Not nonsense. The idea is that every rule has an exception, so finding
>one doesn't constitute disproving the rule. Logically, of course,
>it doesn't prove the rule, either, but the expression still makes sense.
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But it does disprove the rule. It proves that the rule does not hold
for all cases, and is therefore wrong.