Atoms are colorless. Cats are made of atoms, so cats are colorless.
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If Bacon wrote Hamlet, then Bacon was a great writer
Bacon did not write Hamlet.
Therefore Bacon was not a great writer.
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Some dog have fuzzy years.
My dog has fuzzy years.
Therefore, my dog is some dog! (as in “quite a dog”)
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Peter is an Apostole.
The Apostoles are twelve.
Therfore Peter is twelve.
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Three and two are odd and even.
Five is three and two.
Therefore, five is odd and even.
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The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible, is that people can hear it: and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people actually desire it (J. S. Mill, Utilitarianism) – the error consists in being misled by the termination „-able”, which in first two cases means „can see or hear”, whereas to say that something is desirable is to say that is “worthy of desire”.
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Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three lefts do.
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. (A. Einstein)
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The earth moves, because the heaven stands still.
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Nothing is too good for the king.
A bowl of oatmeal is better than nothing.
A bowl of oatmeal is too good for the king.
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I notice that you surf the Net a lot. Do you enjoy all the pornography you find there?
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Education cannot prepare men and women for marriage. Trying to educate them for marriage is like trying to them to swim without allowing them to go into the water. It cannot be done.
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It is wrong to kill innocent human beings
Fetuses are innocent human beings
Therefore, it is wrong to kill fetuses.
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Are you getting up – or are you going to stay in bed all day like a lazy bum?
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Pornography should be illegal because studies show that most convicted sexual offenders report regular use of such materials.
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…Sharp-tongued Benjamin Disraeli, so the story goes, was ordered in the last century to withdraw his declaration that half the Cabinet were asses. “Mr. Speaker, I withdraw,” was Disraeli’s response. “Half the Cabinet are not asses.”
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If it’s raining then the streets are wet.
The streets are wet.
Therefore, it’s raining.
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