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Re: OT: Proving the rule (was Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?)

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 15:48
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:20:45PM +0000, Joe wrote:
> But it does disprove the rule. It proves that the rule does not hold > for all cases, and is therefore wrong.
It is not generally applied to universal laws which claim to hold for all cases, but to vague generalities which hold for *most* cases. -Mark