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A Question?

oriental67
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Posted 10/28/09 - 03:22 AM: Subject: A Question?	#1
Here's a question that I've been trying to figure out: "A is B because A is C." Does this entail that B is C? If not, are there any counter-examples?

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Posted 10/28/09 - 06:17 AM:	#2
George has a shell because George is a tortoise. Does not entail: has a shell = is a tortoise. 'Has a shell' might be Simon the snail.
...most of our actions are the result of the past, or according to a future ideal. That's not action, that is just conformity. J Krishnamurti "Philosophy, to the Philistine, is an evolutionary process, watched over by some sort of brisk dynamic Providence, and culminating in the supreme insight of modern thought." John Cowper Powys

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