[WikiEN-l] Another rule literalism problem

[Todd Allen]

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:07 PM,  <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 6/25/2008 2:28:41 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> arromdee at rahul.net writes:
>
> Other  than my say-so, do we have a source for the claim that someone born
> in  Detroit, Michigan was born in the United States?
>
> Hiragana is  unambiguous.  You can look up exactly what it is.  When you  look
> it up you get "Tessaiga", not "Tetsusaiga".  It doesn't take any
> interpretation
> to do so.  There are no serious claims that the  Japanese version doesn't
> say "Tessaiga".>>
>
>
> -----------------------------
> Then you should have no problem presenting a source which states  that.
>
> Will Johnson
>
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I don't think it requires any undue or novel synthesis to use very
simple logic. "A is wholly contained by B", therefore "Anything in A
is also in B". Detroit is wholly contained by the US, so anything or
anyone in Detroit is also in the US. Anyone making any -other- claim
would be the one making an extraordinary claim, and would require
extraordinary proof.

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