- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:36:13 -0500
- To: leslie.brown@evidian.com, www-style Mailing List <www-style@w3.org>
leslie.brown@evidian.com wrote: > A non-trivial string contains something. > Therefore saying it contains nothing can't be true. > If it doesn't contain "nothing" it can't begin with it either. This would be what we would call a logical fallacy. It uses the phrase "contains nothing" with two different meanings in two different sentences. -Boris
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